litigation and dispute resolution

Our litigation & dispute resolution team have extensive experience in conflict resolution and management. Our business and management structure allows us to provide cost effective advice and management of disputes from the most simple debt collection matters to the most complex, multi-party litigation.

Our team is experienced in resolving commercial disputes by negotiation, including alternative dispute resolution avenues, or through litigation. Although we are specialist litigators, we always consider any form of alternate dispute resolution if it is to the benefit of our clients. Noting that every dispute is different, we work with our clients to achieve the optimum result for them and in particular, to achieve their commercial objectives.

All members of the litigation & dispute resolution practice group make it a priority to keep informed of any and all changes in the law to ensure the best commercially focused legal solutions are delivered to our clients, regardless of the type of dispute.

Ready access to technology-based litigation support systems for deployment as necessary ensures our team can address complex issues, provide innovative solutions and deal efficiently with large volumes of documents and all procedural matters.

experience in a broad range of areas

We can offer you litigation and dispute resolution services in relation to: 

administrative law; banking and finance; contempt of court; contract law; copyright, trademarks and design; corporate fraud and corruption; Corporations Law; defamation; director and shareholders disputes; estate disputes; franchising disputes; freedom of information; high volume debt recovery; inquests and inquiries; insolvency; insurance law; land tax; litigation in all courts; mediations and arbitrations; partnership disputes; product liability; professional negligence; property disputes; regulatory investigations and prosecutions; succession disputes; trade practices / competition and consumer protection; trust disputes; and workers compensation

involvement in major litigation

• continuing representation of a Victorian statutory authority before the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission;
• acting in numerous cases in the Taxation List of the Federal Court of Australia;
• successfully acting for Esanda Finance Company Limited against Aussie Vic Plant Hire Pty Ltd in proceedings before the Full Court Victorian Court of Appeal and High Court, which went to the heart of the winding up provisions of the Corporations Act;
• acting for the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Fund in international litigation across four countries in relation to a $200 million charitable bequest; and
• conducting land tax appeals over the assessment of trusts on behalf of Centro Properties, culminating in the High Court decision in CPT Custodian Ltd, which successfully appealed a series of aggregation assessments by the Victorian SRO.