PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

NSW qualified barrister 2016, solicitor in Sydney since admission in NSW – 1997. Now based in Hobart.

11th Floor Garfield Barwick Chambers, Sydney: Sept. 2016 – May 2018: Barrister

Bundock / Palmer Lawyers, Sydney: 2008 – 2016: Partner

Clark McNamara Lawyers, Sydney: 1999 – 2007: Senior Associate

Doyles Construction Lawyers, Sydney: 1997 – 1998: Solicitor

Blake Dawson Waldron Lawyers, Sydney: 1996 – 1997: Litigation and Technology Group

QUALIFICATIONS AND ADMISSIONS

New South Wales Bar Association: barrister qualification
NSW Bar Examinations, and Bar Readers Course – 2016

University of New South Wales
Master of Laws 2006 – commercial focus

NSW College of Law
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice NSW 1996

University of Tasmania
Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Economics 1995

EXPERIENCE

Cases cited on Austlii legal research database in which David has been barrister, or previously as solicitor with conduct and control:

As barrister: NSW  

Lorena Zupicic v Angela La Camera Paino as Trustee for the Estate of the Late Mario Novick [2018] NSWSC 692 (18 May 2018)  deceased estates and equitable estoppel 

Lorena Zupicic v Angela La Camera Paino as Trustee for the Estate of the Late Mario Novick [2018] NSWSC 1117 (20 July 2018)  costs – deceased estates litigation – executor personally liable for costs 

R v Ojeh  / Commonwealth DPP v Ojeh [2017] NSWSC 552  crime – Supreme Court NSW bail application – show cause test  continued detention in gaol unjustified 

As solicitor: NSW 

Osborne Metal Industries v Bullock (No.1) [2011] NSWSC 636 (22 June 2011) – commercial litigation 

Osborne Metal Industries v Bullock (No.5) [2011] NSWSC 684 (28 June 2011)  

International Skin Care Suppliers Pty Ltd v Whyte [2011] NSWSC 46 (11 February 2011) – Insolvency 

Culligan & Anor v ACO Pty Ltd [2009] NSWCA 290 (15 September 2009) – commercial litigation 

Capital Radio Network Pty Ltd, Radio Snowy Mountains Pty Ltd & Ors v Garrott [2008] NSWSC 17 (30 January 2008) – commercial litigation 

Sides Engineering Pty Ltd v Energetech Australia Pty Ltd (No. 2) [2007] FCA 1464 (14 June 2007)  construction law  Building and Construction Industry Security of Payments Act (1999) NSW 

Energetech Australia v Sides Engineering [2005] NSWSC 1143 (25 November 2005)   construction law  Building and Construction Industry Security of Payments Act (1999) NSW 

Sides Engineering Pty Ltd v Energetech Australia Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 1672 (22 November 2005) – construction law 

Energetech v Sides Engineering and Anor [2005] NSWSC 801 (5 August 2005)  construction law – Building and Construction Industry Security of Payments Act (1999) NSW 

Ho v Regulator Australia Pty Ltd & Anor (No.2) [2004] FMCA 402 (25 June 2004)  costs, employment law, sexual discrimination claim – defence 

Ho v Regulator Australia Pty Ltd & Anor [2004] FMCA 62 (12 May 2004) – employment law, sexual discrimination claim – defence 

Isak Constructions v Faress [2003] NSWSC 784 (27 August 2003) – commercial litigation 

AREAS OF LAW

Commercial
Crime
Wills and Estates
Employment law
Family Law
Land & Environment Court

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