Alan practices in the technology, communications, and corporate and commercial sectors. His expertise include: (i) intellectual property, particularly copyright, trade marks, and confidential information and related employment issues; (ii) competition and consumer law and trade practices; (iii) company law, such as insolvency, shareholder remedies, director’s duties, and derivative actions; and (iv) general commercial law, such …
Michael has appeared in the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court, State Supreme Courts, the Land and Environment Court, and various tribunals. He has experience in participating in many mediations and arbitrations throughout Australia. Before coming to the Bar, Michael was Head of Corporate Affairs and Planning, of the Audio-Visual Copyright Society Limited (now …
He provides validity and infringement advice for patent, trademark, design and copyright rights as well as advice on unfair advertising and misleading and deceptive conduct in trade under Australian Consumer Law. James practices mainly in the Federal Court, appearing in infringement of rights actions, seeking or resisting injunctions and other urgent relief and preparation of …
Trial Counsel James considers himself primarily a trial counsel. In recent years James’ practice has consisted primarily of conducting Supreme Court and Federal Court commercial litigation briefed by both large Melbourne and Sydney firms and smaller legal practices in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. In earlier years, James conducted numerous hearings in the Magistrates’ …
