Dr. Andrew Newman practises in common law, administrative law and employment law.
Andrew has been regularly briefed to appear in the Supreme Court, County Court, Magistrates’ Court, Federal Circuit Court, Fair Work Commission, VCAT and AAT, as a leader, led and unled.
Andrew has extensive experience in serious injury applications, common law damages trials, statutory benefit claims, administrative review and employment-related disputes. Andrew also has an active conferencing, mediation and paperwork practice related to these areas.
Andrew is a previous Secretary and member of Lennon’s List Committee, a previous member of the Victorian Bar’s Student Engagement Committee and a current member of the Practice Development Committee. Unrelated to his practice at the Bar, Andrew was a sessional Ombudsman at the Australian Financial Complaints Authority, where he determined insurance disputes between financial firms and complainants.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Andrew worked as a solicitor at the Transport Accident Commission. Andrew also worked as a legal academic, including as a Research Fellow to the Centre of Employment and Labour Relations Law and a Teaching Fellow of Corporate Law at Melbourne Law School. He has also lectured and tutored at Deakin University’s School of Law. Andrew began his career in Canada in 2006, where he worked as an Associate in the Employment and Labour Law department of a large national law firm, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP.
Andrew is a recipient of the 2011 Julian Small Foundation Annual Research Grant for his academic work. He has also received several commendations for the teaching of law, including Deakin University’s Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching. Andrew has acted as a legal education consultant to the Australia and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance in the design of their statutory personal injury law training programme. He has also advised a range of international and governmental organizations, including a northern Canadian Aboriginal Tribal Council and the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Rights Project in Sana’a, Yemen.
Andrew holds a PhD (Law) from Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, an LLB and BCL from McGill University, Montreal and a BA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He speaks and reads advanced French, intermediate Spanish, German and Dutch and beginners Macedonian.
Andrew read with Her Honour Áine Magee KC.
Publications:
Andrew Newman, ‘The legal precariousness of temporary migrant agricultural work: A comparative Canadian and Australian perspective’ (2021) 164 Precedent 43.
Andrew Newman, ‘Australia pays fast-food workers $20 an hour and the sky hasn’t fallen’, The Globe and Mail, Canada (20 February 2018).
John Howe and Andrew Newman, ‘Collective Bargaining and the Ownership of Employee Creation’ (2013) 26 Australian Journal of Labour Law 273.
Andrew Newman, ‘The Legal In/Security of Temporary Migrant Agricultural Work: Case Studies from Canada and Australia’ (2013) 18(2) Deakin Law Review 361.
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