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David Robertson QC
David Robertson QC

David Robertson QC

B.A., LL.B., LL.M., M.C.I.Arb., Dip.I.C.Arb.

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, NSW, ACT, WA

Mediatior/Arbitrator:

Accredited Mediator
Arbitrator

9225 8236
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dgr@vicbar.com.au
Areas of Practice:
  • Administrative
  • Bankruptcy
  • Civil
  • Commercial
  • Common
  • Equity and Trusts
  • Government
  • Health
  • Human Rights and Discrimination
  • Insurance
  • Occupational Regulation
  • Professional Negligence
  • Property
  • Residential Tenancies
  • Revenue & Superannuation
  • Trade Practices
  • Wills and Estates

General Profile

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.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation.

Previous occupation

Articles of Clerkship with Mr J.G. Wilkin of Corr & Corr, Melbourne, 1980.

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.

Memberships and
Associations
  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Academic Position /
Published Articles
  • 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 (1997 – 2006).

“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.

“Caveats Over Joint and Common Interests in Land” presented to the Commercial Litigation Specialist Study Group at the Law Institute of Victoria, 16 August 2017.

“Notes on Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016” presented to the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Royal Children’s Hospital, 7 May 2018; updated and re-presented to the Western District Law Association, 15 March, 2019.

“Topical Ethics” presented to the Western District Law Association, 15 March, 2019.

“Marshalling Securities and Words of Release” presented to the Commercial Litigation Specialist Study Group at the Law Institute of Victoria, 18 September 2019.

“Trustee Responsibilities and Overpayments” presented at the Superannuation Law Conference, Leo Cussen Centre for Law, 25 October 2019.

“Common Law Rules for the Construction of Releases”, Letter to the Editor in Australian Law Journal, (2019) Vol. 93., p. 904.

“Settlements and Releases” presented (jointly with I.W.D. Upjohn C.S.C, Q.C.) at the Howells’ List Barristers Continuing Professional Development Breakfast, 28 November 2019.
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