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Kim comes to the bar with 20 years experience in insurance and personal injuries litigation, focussing in more recent years on asbestos litigation and Commonwealth workers compensation.  Kim also has extensive experience in the areas of public liability, reinsurance, Medical Panel reviews, s138 recovery claims, claims for wrongful death and personal injury damages claims.  Kim also has an interest in professional negligence and administrative law, including statutory and disciplinary tribunals, as well as crime.  She welcomes briefs in all of these areas.

She has been involved in matters in all superior jurisdictions, at both trial and appellate level.  She has also successfully represented clients in various alternative dispute resolution forums.

Kim was previously a partner at Thomsons Lawyers, an independent Australian mid tier law firm.  She is a director of the Australian Insurance Law Association and is also a committee member the Victorian branch.  She is also a committee member of the Law Council of Australia’s National Insurance Lawyers Group and the Personal Injuries and Compensation Committee.

Before coming to the Bar, Andrew was the associate to the Honourable Justice B. D. Bongiorno AO and then worked in Cambodia for a year as a legal adviser to the Community Legal Education Center in Phnom Penh. During 2020, Andrew took a break from the Bar and worked as the Senior Legal Adviser (Treaty) in the Office of the General Counsel, Department of Premier and Cabinet. Andrew was a board member of the Fitzroy Legal Service for nearly 6 years to June 2018. He read with Mr Christopher B. Boyce SC.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Fiona was associate to His Honour Judge Dyer at the County Court of Victoria. His Honour sat in the Common Law Division of the Court, and heard matters in the Serious Injury Applications List, WorkCover List, Defamation List and General List. As an associate, Fiona was involved in common law damages trials, serious injury applications, judicial mediations and a range of interlocutory disputes.

Fiona has a special interest in common law with a particular focus on personal injury matters.

Fiona is reading with Robert Harper. Her senior mentor is Roisin Annesley QC.

Natasha comes to the Bar with an extensive history in personal injuries and civil litigation.

From her admission in Victoria in 2002 until coming to the Bar, Natasha worked in personal injuries insurance, specializing in workers’ compensation common law litigation.

Natasha became a Partner of the Accident Compensation Litigation team at Hall & Wilcox in 2012 representing the Victorian WorkCover Authority and self-insurers. In 2013, Natasha became the Self-Insurance Relationship Partner. Natasha developed her statutory benefits knowledge and her understanding of self-insurers in her role as Special Counsel at Sparke Helmore.

Natasha’s experience in personal injuries includes statutory benefits litigation, serious injury applications and damages trials together with motor vehicle claims.

Natasha has acted for various clients in personal injuries matters, coronial inquests, disciplinary hearings and discrimination matters.

Stephanie accepts briefs in personal injuries, commercial, insurance and employment law matters.

She has extensive experience in accident compensation matters (including statutory benefits, serious injury applications, damages trials and s138 recoveries), general insurance matters (including public liability, medical negligence and asbestos/toxic tort) and commercial litigation. Stephanie was a senior associate at Herbert Geer and acted on the behalf of the VWA in that capacity.

Immediately prior to coming to the Bar, Stephanie was principle of a commercial legal practice where she appeared as solicitor-advocate on behalf of many private SMEs in a variety of commercial disputes. These included contractual and business disputes, restraint of trade matters, injunctions, bankruptcy proceedings and winding up applications. Her employment law practice Includes acting in Fair Work Australia matters ranging from unfair dismissal & general protection claims to advising on terms of employment contracts.

She read with Bruce McKenzie and her senior mentor is Ross Gillies QC.

Stella practices in common law personal injury, administrative law (particularly, review of medical panels) and equal opportunity including discrimination and sexual harassment cases.

Stella regularly appears in common law trials, appeals, serious injury applications, judicial review, coronial inquests, and in discrimination claims in the state and federal jurisdictions. Stella has been involved in significant litigation involving the duties of statutory bodies, intentional torts, human rights and novel duties of care in negligence.

Stella is listed in the Doyles Guide as a leading insurance law junior counsel. Stella graduated with first class honours, and has been awarded academic prizes including at a Masters level for Administrative Law and published research.

Phillip welcomes briefs in common law, commercial and criminal matters. He has particular experience in personal injury claims of all types and has a general interest in commercial, administrative law and crime.

Before coming to the Bar, Phillip worked in mid to large tier law firms serving both plaintiff and defendant clients.

Most recently, Phillip worked in a defendant firm as part of the WorkCover and Commonwealth teams. He defended worker’s compensation claims under the Accident Compensation Act, handled claims against Comcare and claims made under the Asbestos and Dust Diseases Torts legislation.

Prior to this, his experience was as a senior lawyer with two plaintiff firms where he had the conduct of numerous WorkCover, medical negligence, public liability and TAC matters.

Before coming to Australia Phillip was a sole practitioner in South Africa where he ran a law practice that focused on personal injury, corporate work in regards to small to medium commercial enterprises, family law and crime. The broad experience of running such a practice empowers Phillip to accept briefs across these wide areas of interest.

Phillip completed his Bachelor Procurationsand postgraduate Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, in South Africa. He was awarded Certificates of Merit in Partnership and Company Law and Specific Contracts by the Dean of Law.

Phillip read with His Honour Judge Rob Dyer, before he was called to the County Court bench and his senior mentor is Mr Philip Jewell SC.