Since admission Chris has maintained a busy and broad commercial litigation and advocacy practice, with a focus on insolvency, building and construction, professional negligence, property, administrative law, and disciplinary matters both for and against regulatory/investigative bodies. He has a reputation for conducting complex and sensitive litigation with care, knowledge and skill.
Chris has conducted matters in, and appeared as Counsel before, the Supreme Court of Tasmania, Federal and Federal Circuit and Family Courts of Australia, Magistrates Court of Tasmania, Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Administrative Review Tribunal, as well as within various forms of alternative dispute resolution.
In 2005 Chris completed the University of Southern Queensland and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia postgraduate advanced insolvency law course/insolvency education program qualification. He acts regularly for insolvency practitioners in advisory and litigation roles, including statutory recoveries, examinations, and applications for judicial advice and specialised relief.
Chris became an accredited adjudicator under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act in New South Wales and Tasmania in 2010, and is now a senior adjudicator in those states as well as Queensland, Victoria and South Australia. As part of Chris’ administrative law practice he has successfully sought prerogative relief to quash decisions of statutory adjudicators.
Since 2012 Chris has been a reporter of decisions for the Tasmanian Reports, and was appointed editor in 2024 by the Council of Law Reporting. Chris is co-editor of Civil Procedure Tasmania, as part of which he authored the first annotated service for the procedural legislation and rules of the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He is a member of the Supreme Court Rule Committee and former sessional member of the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Chris is a regular CPD presenter, including for the Law Society of Tasmania on topics including security of payment legislation, professional ethics, civil procedure, property and leasing, insolvency and alternative dispute resolution.
Chambers:
Malthouse Chambers
119B Hampden Road
BATTERY POINT TAS 7004
Postal address:
PO Box 412
LENAH VALLEY TAS 7008