David Robertson QC
B. A., LL. B., LL. M., Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Admission:
01 April 1981
Signed Bar Roll:
23 May 1985
Appointed Silk:
26 November 2014
Chambers:
Owen Dixon Chambers West
Floor 1, Room 19
525 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Admitted to Practice:
Victoria
Areas of Practice:
- Accredited Mediator
- Commercial Law
- Revenue & Superannuation
- Taxation Law
Profile
- Articles of Clerkship with Mr J.G. Wilkin of Corr & Corr, Melbourne, 1980.
- Admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 1 April, 1981.
- Employed by Corr & Corr as a Solicitor and then as an Associate and then Senior Associate from 1981 to 1985 working mainly in Banking, Finance and Commercial Litigation.
- Signed the Roll of Counsel of the Victorian Bar on 23 May, 1985.
- Admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 8 December, 1993.
- Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory on 13 May, 1994.
- Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia on 3 June, 1998.
- Practises mainly in Commercial Law, including Banking, Finance, Securities, Consumer Credit, Trusts and Superannuation and also Constitutional Law, Equity, Company Law, Administrative Law and Professional Negligence.
- Member of the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Royal Children’s Hospital.
- Senior Honorary Fellow and Part-Time Lecturer in Finance Law, University of Melbourne.
Publications and Articles:
“The Application of the Credit Act 1984” in Consumer Credit Series, Seminar Papers, 1989, Leo Cussen Institute.
Chattel Securities Chapter in Butterworths, Court Forms, Precedents & Pleadings – Victoria.
“Consumer Credit Code: What is Credit?” in Butterworths, Consumer Credit Bulletin (1999) No.10, p. 4.
“Consumer Credit: Charge for Credit” in Butterworths, Consumer Credit Bulletin (2000) No. 1, p. 7.
“My Flotsam or Your Jetsam: International Trade or Ownership of Goods in the Event of Insolvency” (written jointly with M. Flood) in International Trade & Business Law Bulletin (2000) Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 26 and also in In house Counsel (1999) Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 25.
“Consumer Credit: Purpose of Credit” in Butterworths, Consumer Credit Bulletin (2000) No. 3, p. 3.
“Enforcement under the Consumer Credit Code” in The Consumer Credit Code, 2002, Leo Cussen Institute.
“Defences in Mortgage Enforcement” presented at the Legalwise Seminar, Resolving Mortgage Disputes, 14 September 2005; updated and re-presented, 14 March 2008.
“Recent Tribunal and Supreme Court Cases Relating to the Consumer Credit Code” in Consumer Credit Disputes, Seminar Papers, 2007, Leo Cussen Institute.
“Invoking the Statutory Power of Sale of a Mortgagee of Land” presented at the Television Education Network Seminar, The Mortgagee’s Power of Sale, 21 February 2008.
“Commercial and Retail Leases” presented to the Western District Law Association, 26 March 2015.
From 11 Dec 2008, liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation.
