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Notable Cases

Pethers v Pethers [2025] NSWSC 389

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Respondent to an application for leave to file a claim for family provision out of time

 

Pethers v Pethers (No 2) [2025] NSWSC 

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Respondent on the question of costs arising from the successful defence to an application for leave to file a family provision claim out of time

 

Red Arrow Holdings atf the Brentnall Family Trust v Diza Pty Ltd atf the Diza Family Trust [2025] NSWSC 849

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff on question of costs following orders for appointment of trustees for sale under section 66G of the Conveyancing Act 1919

 

Kronenberg v Macaulay [2025] NSWCA 195

  • Appearing as Junior Counsel for the Respondent, led by Senior Counsel, in a successful appeal resulting in the dismissal of a claim for proprietary estoppel 

 

Puntoriero v Higgins [2025] NSWDC 244

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Defendant to a claim for the recovery of a loan purportedly made under an oral contract 

 

The Owners-Strata Plan 94800 v Aushome Construction Pty Ltd and Anor [2025] NSWDC 143

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Owners Corporation in successful claim for damages arising from building defects which were in breach of the statutory warranties in the Home Building Act 1989

 

Bryant v Crompton [2024] NSWSC 238

  • Appearing as Counsel for the successful applicant seeking the imposition of an easement over rural property under section 88K of the Conveyancing Act 1919

 

Bryant v Crompton (No 2) [2024] NSWSC 586

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff on the question of costs and terms of easement following successful application for an easement under section 88K Conveyancing Act 1919

 

Macaulay v Macaulay [2024] NSWSC 1547

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff who obtained, at first instance, declarations of equitable interests in various rural properties based upon a claim of proprietary estoppel (overturned on appeal)

 

AIP Property Holdings Pty Ltd v Fellowship of the Esoteric School of Higher Learning Ltd [2023] NSWSC 986

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff in costs application following successful application to withdraw a caveat over real property

 

Sood v Borthwick [2022] NSWSC 901

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Defendant on the question of costs, in relation to a claim of trespass to real property arising out of the excavation of a trench on a boundary of the plaintiff’s property with the defendant’s neighbouring property

 

BMW Australia Finance Ltd v Mehajer Vision Pty Ltd (No 2) [2021] NSWSC 1379

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff seeking possession of a motor vehicle under a security interest

 

Mace Central Pty Ltd v Franco [2022] NSWSC 1463

  • Appearing as Counsel for Second Defendant in proceedings for approval of a settlement

 

Application of Peter Hodges [2021] NSWSC 55

  • Appearing as Counsel in an application for directions by a tutor in relation to the conduct and potential settlement of proceedings

 

Obela Fresh Dips and Spreads Pty Limited v Coetzee [2020] NSWSC 1862

  • Appearing for the Plaintiff in a successful application for default judgment for $3Magainst a defendant located overseas

 

Friend v Reavill Farm Pty Ltd [2018] NSWSC 1321

  • Appearing as Counsel for the mortgagee seeking possession of rural properties following the mortgagors’ default in a loan agreement and mortgage

 

Friend v Reavill Farm Pty Ltd [2018] NSWSC 1978

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff against Defendant’s motion to stay judgment for possession

 

Uebergang v Uebergang [2017] NSWSC 1058

  • Legal Professional Privilege – application to set aside subpoenas – evidence required to support a privilege claim

 

S Lander & Partners Pty Limited v Todd and Anor [2017] NSWSC 1119

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff in a security for costs application

 

Dawn Wade and Ruth Wade v Joyce Wade [2017] NSWSC 1686

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Defendant in an application for summary dismissal of proceedings

 

Capercorp Pty Limited v Brasam Pty Limited [2017] NSWSC 608

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff in an interlocutory application for injunctive relief in a franchise case

 

Jodell v Woods [2017] NSWSC 143

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff in successful claim for family provision

 

Drinkwater v Nadinic [2016] NSWSC 1733

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Plaintiff in relation to equitable relief of setting aside a mortgage and deed of settlement

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Benson v Rational Entertainment Enterprises Ltd [2015] NSWSC 906

  • Appearing as Junior Counsel for the Plaintiff, led by Marcus Young SC, in successfully resisting application for originating process to be set aside

 

Bares v Watson [2013] NSWSC 29

  • Appearing as Counsel for a purchaser seeking to extend a caveat over real property in circumstances where there was a serious question to be tried as to the validity of a notice to complete issued by the vendor.

 

Williams v Walker [2013] NSWSC 1013

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Appellant on a question of law

 

Cranney Farm Pty Ltd v Corowa Fertilizers Pty Ltd [2011] NSWSC 9

  • Appearing as Counsel for the Defendant in an application to set aside a statutory demand

 

Permanent Custodians Ltd v AGB Developments Pty Ltd [2010] NSWSC 540

  • Appearing as Counsel for a guarantor of a loan resisting judgment

 

Li v Deng [2010] NSWCA 266

  • Appearing for the successful Appellant in a claim of an equitable interest in the family home based on a resulting trust, constructive trust or proprietary estoppel

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