Members of Jeffcott Chambers are well known and sought after for their advocacy and strategic skills as well as their knowledge of the law. Chambers has a proud history, with many former members serving the community as judges or Members of Parliament. 

Practice Areas

ANDREW HARRIS KC

Andrew Harris QC

Telephone: (08) 8231 2344

Email: aharris@jeffcott.com.au

Admitted to practice: 1980

Signed Bar Roll: 1982

Appointed Silk: 1999

Qualifications: LLB

Practice Areas

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution

  • Appellate

  • Arbitration

  • Bankruptcy and Insolvency

  • Building and Construction Law

  • Commercial Law

  • Common Law and Personal Injury

  • Defamation

  • Environment and Planning Law

  • Equity and Trusts

  • Inquests, Inquiries, Tribunals and Commissions

  • Intellectual Property

  • Local Government

  • Public and Administrative Law

 

MEMBERSHIPS

South Australian Bar Association

New South Wales Bar Association

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Head of Jeffcott Chambers

President, South Australian Bar Association 2014 – 2016

Associate Member: Sixth Floor Selborne/Wentworth Chambers
174-180 Philip Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Ph: (02) 9233 2470


IAN ROBERTSON-cLARK SC

Ian Robertson SC

Practice Areas

  • Alternative Dispute Resolution

  • Appellate

  • Building and Construction Law

  • Commercial Law

  • Common Law and Personal Injury

  • Equity and Trusts

  • Family Law and Guardianship

  • Intellectual Property

  • Wills and Probate

ADMISSIONS/APPOINTMENTS

Admitted to Practice - 1986

Signed Bar Roll - 1995

Appointed Silk - 2008

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

irobertsonclark@jeffcott.com.au

MEMBERSHIPS

Australian Bar Association

South Australian Bar Association

New Zealand Bar Association (International Member)

Additional Information

President, South Australian Bar Association (2016-2018)

Immediate Past President, South Australian Bar Association (2018 – Present)

Executive Member, Australian Bar Association 

Director, Australian Advocacy Institute

Chair, Advocacy Training Council (National Body)


Hugh Abbott SC

Hugh Abbott SC

Practice Areas

  • Administrative

  • Banking, Finance and Securities Law

  • Bankruptcy, Corporate Insolvency

  • Commercial

  • Common Law - general

  • Company Law (oppression of minority shareholders, directors' duties)

  • Contract

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Employment (breach of employment contracts, unfair dismissal)

  • Equity, Trusts

  • Inquests

  • Insurance

  • Intellectual Property

  • Landlord and Tenant (commercial and residential)

  • Personal Injury

  • Professional Negligence

  • Property (vendor-purchaser, mortgages, constructive and resulting trusts)

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

  • Wills, Estates, Family Provision

Contact Details

T: (08) 8231 2344

M: 0423 202 710

habbott@jeffcott.com.au
 

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 1983

  • Signed Bar Roll - 1987

  • Appointed Silk - 2009


Qualifications

LLB


Additional Information

South Australian Bar Association

Law Society of South Australia


Simon Ower KC

Simon Ower KC practises in civil, commercial, family and public law. He has particular expertise in equity, trusts and estates, administrative law, constitutional law, private international law and family law.

Simon commenced practice as a barrister in 2002 and he was appointed Senior Counsel in 2016 and Queen’s Counsel in 2019.

He has significant experience at both trial and appellate level, and now practises across all Australian jurisdictions and internationally.

Simon has represented clients in a number of high profile cases challenging government action involving difficult issues of public law and policy.

In the area of wills and estates, since 2017, Simon has been recognised by Doyle’s Guide as a Leading Wills and Estate Senior Counsel in Australia and a preeminent one in South Australia. In this regard, he has advised and appeared in many trials and appeals as to the substantial validity of wills (including testamentary capacity), estate administration, family provision and will construction.

He has also advised and appeared in private international law succession disputes concerning the laws of Indonesia, Italy, Florida, and the People’s Republic of China..

He is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, the Australian Association of Constitutional Law, the Australian Institute of Administrative Law. and the Australian & New Zealand Sports Law Association. He regularly gives presentations at professional development conferences.

Practice Areas

  • Administrative Law

  • Commercial Litigation

  • Common Law/Insurance

  • Constitutional Law

  • Defamation, Media, Entertainment

  • Equity and Trusts

  • Family Law

  • Human Rights

  • Judicial Review

  • Family Law

  • Mediations, Arbitrations

  • Migration, Immigration, Citizenship

  • Private International Law

  • Wills, Estates, Family Provision

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

sower@jeffcott.com.au

MEMBERSHIP AND APPOINTMENTS

  • Member, South Australian Bar Association

  • Member, Victorian Bar

  • Member, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners

  • Member, Australian Institute of Administrative Law

  • Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law

  • Member, Australian New Zealand Sports Law Association


Alan Lindsay SC

Alan Lindsay SC

Practice Areas

  • Contract

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Inquests

  • Insurance

  • Mediations, Arbitrations

  • Personal Injury

  • Professional Negligence

  • Property, Conveyancing

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 1982

  • Signed Bar Roll - 2007

  • Appointed Silk - 2018

Qualifications

LLB (Hons), GDLP

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344
Mobile: 0488 070 369

alindsay@jeffcott.com.au

Additional Information

  • South Australian Bar Association

  • Law Society of South Australia

  • Chair, Civil Litigation Committee of the Law Society

  • Chair, Disciplinary Tribunal, Football Federation of South Australia

  • Member, Joint Rules Advisory Committee

  • Member, Indigenous Law Students Mentoring Programme

  • Member, Community Issues Committee of the Law Society


Carey Goodall KC

Carey Goodall

Practice Areas

  • Arbitration, Expert Determination, Mediation

  • Building and Construction

  • Contract Disputes

  • Defamation

  • Engineering Disputes

  • Insurance

  • Coronial  Inquests

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Native Title

  • Personal Injury

  • Family Inheritance Disputes

  • Professional Negligence

  • Trade Practices

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 1984

  • Signed Bar Roll - 1996

  • Appointed Silk - 2022

Qualifications

LLB (Hons) (Adelaide University, 1983)

Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (1984)

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

Mobile: 0408 196 033

cgoodall@jeffcott.com.au

 

Additional Information

  • South Australian Bar Association

  • Law Society of South Australia

  • Commonwealth Native Title Panel of Practitioners

  • Law Society Panel of Approved Mediators for Supreme Court disputes

  • Past Associate Member Institute of Arbitrators

  • Past National Environmental Law Association (Executive)

  • Past AMPLA (Executive)


Nick Floreani KC

Nick Floreani

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

Mobile: 0403 059 549

nfloreani@jeffcott.com.au

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Curriculum Vitae

Additional Information

Squadron Leader RAAF Reserve Legal Panel

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2016

Fellow of the Australia Centre for International Commercial Arbitration 2016

Practice Areas

  • Bankruptcy, Corporate Insolvency

  • Building, Construction and Engineering

  • Commercial

  • Contract

  • Defamation, Media, Entertainment

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Insurance

  • International Law and Trade

  • Mediations, Arbitrations

Admissions 

  • Admitted to practice 1997

  • Signed Bar Roll 2003

  • Appointed Silk - 2022

Qualifications

  • LLB

  • Bachelor of Commerce

  • Graduate Diploma International Commercial Arbitration

  • Graduate Diploma Military Law

  • Professional Certificate in Arbitration

  • Practitioners Certificate in Mediation and Conciliation


Nicholas Swan

Nicholas Swan

Practice Areas

  • Administrative

  • Banking, Finance

  • Bankruptcy, Corporate Insolvency

  • Building, Construction and Engineering

  • Commercial

  • Company Law

  • Competition, Market Conduct

  • Contract

  • Defamation, Media, Entertainment

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Discrimination, Human Rights

  • Employment, Industrial

  • Equity, Trusts

  • Inquests

  • Insurance

  • Intellectual Property

  • International Law and Trade

  • Landlord and Tenant

  • Licensing (Liquor, Gaming et)

  • Local Government, Planning, Environment

  • Mediations, Arbitrations

  • Mining, Energy, Resources

  • Occupational Health and Safety

  • Personal Injury

  • Professional Negligence

  • Property, Conveyancing

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

  • Transportation Law

  • Wills, Estates, Family Provision

  • Workers Compensation

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

nswan@jeffcott.com.au

 

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 1975

  • Signed Bar Roll - 1993

 

Qualifications

LLB

 

Additional Information

  • South Australian Bar Association

  • Law Society of South Australia


Simon Hanus

Simon Hanus

Practice Areas

  • Administrative

  • Contract

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Employment, Industrial

  • Inquests

  • Insurance

  • Mediations, Arbitrations

  • Occupational Health and Safety

  • Personal Injury

  • Professional Negligence

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

  • Workers Compensation

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 1979

  • Signed Bar Roll - 1999

Qualifications

LLB

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

shanus@jeffcott.com.au

 

Additional Information

South Australian Bar Association

Law Society of South Australia

Member Personal and Professional Assistance Panel

Member Litigation Assistance Fund Assessment Panel

Board Member Legal Assistance Fund


Peter Day

Peter Day

Practice Areas

  • Inquests

  • Insurance

  • Medical Negligence

  • Personal Injury

  • Professional Negligence

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 1984

  • Signed Bar Roll - 2006

Qualifications

LLB, BA(Hons), GDLP

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

pday@jeffcott.com.au

Additional Information

  • South Australian Bar Association


Ben Krupka

Ben Krupka

Practice Areas

  • Administrative

  • Banking, Finance

  • Commercial

  • Company Law

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Employment, Industrial

  • Equity, Trusts

  • Intellectual Property

  • Landlord and Tenant

  • Personal Injury

  • Professional Negligence

  • Property, Conveyancing

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 1989

  • Signed Bar Roll - 1996

Qualifications

LLB (Hons)

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

bkrupka@jeffcott.com.au

 

Additional Information

  • South Australian Bar Association

  • Law Society of South Australia

  • Professional Standards Committee (1997-present)

  • Bulletin Editorial Committee (2001-present)

 


susannah doyle

Practice Areas

  • Criminal

  • Defamation, Media, Entertainment

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Inquests

  • Insurance

  • Medical Negligence and Disciplinary Matters

  • Personal Injury

  • Professional Negligence

  • Wills, Estates, Family Provision

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

sdoyle@jeffcott.com.au

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 2000

  • Signed Bar Roll - 20 July 2023

qualifications

  • BA, LLB (Hons), GDLP

MEMBERSHIP AND APPOINTMENTS

Member of the South Australian Bar Association


Sam Ure

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PRACTICE AREAS

  • Administrative

  • Banking, Finance

  • Bankruptcy, Corporate Insolvency

  • Building, Constructing and Engineering

  • Commercial

  • Company Law 

  • Competition, Market Conduct

  • Contract

  • Defamation, Media, Entertainment

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Discrimination, Human Rights

  • Equity Trusts

  • Insurance

  • Intellectual Property

  • International Law and Trade

  • Landlord and Tenant

  • Licensing (Liquor, Gaming etc)

  • Local Government, Planning, Environment

  • Mediations, Arbitrations

  • Mining, Energy, Resources

  • Professional Negligence

  • Property, Conveyancing

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

  • Wills, Estates, Family Provision

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

M: 0413 510 832

E: sam.ure@jeffcott.com.au

Sam is a leading barrister with a National practice specialising in taxation, commercial and public law.  He helps clients and their advisers navigate complex, multi-dimensional disputes and regulatory investigations, especially those involving detailed legislative regimes.  Sam also specialises in superannuation, trusts and estates law.

Sam appears regularly in superior courts, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and State and Territory Tribunals, both for government and private parties.  He has appeared in many appeals and judicial review proceedings.

Sam is a fellow and active member of the Tax Institute, and a former member of its National Superannuation Technical Committee.

Further information here: 

https://sabar.org.au/barrister-search/#!biz/id/5ccf647eafd6918916a343cd

 

Paul Bullock

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Practice Areas

  • Banking, Finance

  • Bankruptcy, Corporate Insolvency

  • Building, Construction and Engineering

  • Commercial

  • Company Law

  • Contract

  • Defamation, Media and Entertainment

  • Family Law & De Facto Relationships

  • Insurance

  • Intellectual Property

  • Landlord and Tenant

  • Local Government, Planning, Environment

  • Professional Negligence

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

  • Wills, Estates, Family Provision

CONTACT DETAILS

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

E: pbullock@jeffcott.com.au

Admissions

  • Solicitor: 2005

  • Signed Bar Role: 2013

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)

  • Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

  • Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice

  • Master of Law

Anna Wells

CONTACT DETAILS

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

E: awells@jeffcott.com.au

Anna Wells practises in the areas of commercial and civil litigation, employment law, public law, disciplinary matters, environment, land and planning law and Coronial Inquests. Anna has conducted a range of appellate court matters in various jurisdictions including criminal and has particular experience in administrative law, and statutory construction.

Anna has appeared both as junior counsel in the High Court and as counsel presenting arguments in the Supreme Court of South Australia, the Federal Court of Australia and other State and Federal courts and tribunals.

Prior to commencing practice at the Bar, Anna was part of the Crown Counsel group at the Crown Solicitor’s Office (SA) where she was briefed as in-house counsel by all sections of the Crown to appear in trials, hearings and appeals in a range of jurisdictions. Prior to her time at the Crown, she was an associate to the Honourable Justice John Mansfield AM of the Federal Court of Australia.

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 2008

  • Signed Bar Roll - 2017

Practice Areas

Appellate

  • Civil and Commercial

  • Criminal Law

  • Public Law

Commercial

  • Appellate

  • Bankruptcy

  • Building and Construction

  • Competition

  • Consumer Protection Law

  • Contractual Disputes

  • Corporations

  • Equity

  • Insurance

  • Intellectual Property

  • Partnership Disputes

  • Professional Liability

  • Real Property

  • Restraint of Trade

Common Law

  • Appellate

  • Conflict of Laws / Choice of Law

  • Intentional Torts

  • Negligence

Employment and Industrial Law

  • Workers Compensation

  • Appellate

  • Discrimination

  • Employment Contracts and Restraint of Trade

  • Industrial Disputes and Statutory Employment Rights

  • Public Sector Appeals

Equity

  • Appellate

  • Inheritance Family Provision

  • Real Property

  • Trusts

  • Wills and Probate

Public Law

  • Appellate

  • Administrative Law and Judicial Review

  • Civil and Human Rights

  • Compulsory Acquisition of Land

  • Constitutional Law

  • Coronial Inquests

  • Customs

  • Discrimination

  • Extradition

  • Freedom of Information

  • Local Government

  • Merits Review

  • Migration Law

  • Native Title

MEMBERSHIP

  • South Australian Bar Association

  • JusticeNet SA - Management Committee 2018 - 2020


daniel Lorbeer

Practice Areas

  • Banking, Finance

  • Bankruptcy, Corporate Insolvency

  • Building, Construction and Engineering

  • Commercial

  • Company Law

  • Contract

  • Defamation, Media, Entertainment

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Equity Trusts

  • Inquests

  • Insurance

  • Mediations, Arbitrations

  • Professional Negligence

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

  • Wills, Estates, Family Provision

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

dlorbeer@jeffcott.com.au

ADMISSIONS / APPOINTMENTS

  • Admitted to Practice - 5 December 2008

  • Signed Bar Roll - 30 April 2015

MEMBERSHIPS

  • The Australian Insurance Law Association

  • Society of Construction Law Australia

  • The Building Dispute Practitioner’s Society

  • ARITA


Tom Besanko

Tom Besanko

Practice Areas

  • Administrative

  • Bankruptcy, Corporate Insolvency

  • Commercial

  • Company Law

  • Competition, Market Conduct

  • Contract

  • Equity, Trusts

  • Insurance

  • Intellectual Property

  • Local Government, Planning, Environment

  • Professional Negligence

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

  • Wills, Estates, Family Provision

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 2009

  • Signed Bar Roll - 2012

Qualifications

  • LLB (Hons) B. Com (Adel)

Contact Details

T: (08) 8231 2344

tbesanko@jeffcott.com.au

Additional Information

  • Law Society of South Australia

 


Holly Veale

Practice Areas

Holly practices predominately in commercial, civil and administrative law. She also accepts briefs in employment law.

Holly has significant experience in commissions of inquiry. In 2015/2016 she appeared as Junior Counsel for the State of South Australia in the Child Protection Systems Royal Commission. In 2017 she was Counsel Assisting the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption in the evaluation of SafeWork SA. She has recently appeared for a number of providers in the Aged Care Royal Commission.

Areas of Practice:

  • Administrative (including migration)

  • Commercial

  • Commissions

  • Building, Construction and Engineering

  • Defamation, Media, Entertainment

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Discrimination, Human Rights

  • Employment, Industrial

  • Insurance

  • Inquests

  • Personal Injury (including medical negligence)

  • Professional Negligence

  • Wills, Estates

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

hveale@jeffcott.com.au

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Although based in South Australia, Holly appears regularly interstate, including New South Wales. Please contact her to discuss interstate engagements.

Holly is a member of the South Australian Bar Association and on the Futures Committee of the Australian Bar Association.

Holly is a trainer with the Australian Advocacy Institute and the Australian Bar Association.

Chairperson of the Board of Connecting Foster and Kinship Carers SA.

Board Member of the State Theatre Company of South Australia.

Cases of NotE

Minister for Education and Child Development v M, L & Ors [2018] SASC 32

BVZ16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2017) 254 FCR 221

Commissioner for Consumer Affairs v McMurray [2017] SASCFC 16

 


edwina Keynes

Contact Details

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

ekeynes@jeffcott.com.au

admissions

  • Admitted to practice – 2012

  • Signed Bar Roll – 2018

Qualifications

  • LLB (Hons)

  • International Studies (2011)

Practice Areas

  • Commercial

  • Contractual Disputes

  • Torts and Negligence

  • Bankruptcy, Corporate Insolvency

  • Building, Construction and Engineering

  • Native Title

  • Banking, Finance

  • Consumer Protection Law

  • Will, Estates, Family Provision

  • Equity

Edwina Keynes has a broad practice in commercial and civil litigation with specialist experience in insolvency and corporations law.

Edwina is regularly briefed to appear in South Australian and New South Wales superior courts. Her appearance work includes contract, equity and property disputes, torts and negligence, wills and estates, complex insolvency proceedings, construction, and finance related proceedings.

Prior to the Bar, Edwina practiced as a solicitor in commercial litigation in South Australia, New South Wales, and Victoria. She regularly appeared and advised in general commercial, insolvency and corporate matters.

Edwina Keynes was Associate to the Honourable Justice Anderson of the Supreme Court of South Australia (2013 – 2014).

Edwina is a committee member of Women’s Insolvency Network South Australia (WinSA).

 


molly Scanlon

CONTACT DETAILS

Ph: (08) 8231 2344

mscanlon@jeffcott.com.au

Admissions / Appointments

  • Admitted to Practice - 2013

  • Signed Bar Roll - 20 July 2023

qualifications

  • BA, LLB (Hons), GDLP

Practice Areas

  • Administrative Law

  • Bankruptcy, Corporate, Insolvency

  • Commercial

  • Contract

  • De facto Relationships

  • Disciplinary Tribunals

  • Discrimination, Human Rights

  • Employment, Industrial

  • Equity Trusts

  • Family Law

  • Inquests

  • Insurance

  • Landlord and Tenant

  • Mediations, Arbitrations

  • Migration, Immigration Citizenship

  • Professional Negligence

  • Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

  • Wills, Estates, Family Provision

  • Workers Compensation

MEMBERSHIP

  • Member of the South Australian Bar Association

  • Mediator Accredited under the National Mediator Accreditation System

Molly joined the independent bar in 2022 with extensive civil litigation experience across all jurisdictions. Previously, Molly practised as a solicitor in both private and government practice with a focus on insurance disputes, workers compensation, privacy/FOI, insolvency, taxation and a large variety of administrative law matters, including migration appeals in the Federal Courts. She has also spent time working in the pro bono and community legal sector as the former manager of Pro Bono Connect and the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Project at JusticeNet SA. Molly also has experience in family law and child protection.

In 2021, Molly was appointed by the Courts Administration Authority (SA) as the Step up to the Bar Program participant (a joint initiative of the Chief Justice of SA and SABA) where she had the opportunity to work closely with various members of the judiciary on matters in the Supreme Court, the District Court, the Youth Court, SACAT and the Federal Courts (both in the general and family jurisdictions).
 
Molly accepts briefs in most areas of law and appears in all major courts and tribunals. Molly is also available to accept opinion briefs and undertake advice work. Molly is pleased to consider pro bono briefs via referral through JusticeNet SA.

Molly is also a mediator accredited under the National Mediator Accreditation System.