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Steven has many years’ experience in commercial litigation, having worked for 30 years as a commercial litigation lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills prior to joining the Bar in 2015.

Since commencing as a barrister, Steven has acted in a wide range of matters including:

• Contract disputes
• Construction, oil and gas and mining disputes and arbitrations
• Misleading and deceptive conduct disputes
• Corporation matters including directors duties and shareholder oppression claims
• Estate administration, will and family provision claims
• Restraint of trade
• Liquor licensing matters (including regular appearances for one of Australia’s major retailers in various licensing applications and appeals, and representing defendants in prosecutions)
• Planning disputes (judicial review)
• Unfair preference claims

Steven completed mediator accreditation training in 2015 and since then has mediated more than 50 disputes (nearly all of which settled) and has published papers and presented a number of seminars in this area.

Steven also has extensive competition law experience including in relation to price fixing, market power and restraint of trade cases, negotiations with the ACCC, preparation of notifications for joint ventures and marketing arrangements, and advice in relation to advertising and misleading and deceptive conduct issues.

Steven was a member of the Competition Committee of the Law Council of Australia for a number of years.

Practice Areas

• Administrative law
• Arbitration
• Building and construction
• Competition
• Consumer law
• Contracts
• Corporations law
• Energy, mining and resources
• Environment, planning and development
• Equity
• Liquor licensing
• Mediation (accredited mediator)
• Professional negligence
• Property law
• Tort
• Trusts
• Wills and estates

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Mark appears as counsel in the District and Supreme Courts of Western Australia, the State Administrative Tribunal and the Coroner’s Court of Western Australia.  He also appears in the Western Australia Court of Appeal and the High Court of Australia, as well as before other courts, tribunals, boards and government inquiries.

Mark has acted in some of Western Australia’s significant insurance and tort cases, including Zurich Australian Insurance v Metals & Minerals Insurance, Newcrest Mining v Thornton and AME Hospitals v Dixon in the High Court of Australia and Speno Rail Maintenance Australia v Hamersley Iron and Barr v Farrell in the Western Australia Court of Appeal.  In other jurisdictions, he advised the successful party to a House of Lords appeal arising from the Piper Alpha disaster.  He represented Allied World Assurance Company in The Cosmetic Institute class action in the Supreme Court of New South Wales.  He also represented a prominent insurer in its COVID-19 business interruption claims across Australia.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours.  He has been recognised by Chambers Asia Pacific as a leading individual in insurance.  He is recognised consistently as one of Australia’s leading insurance, medical negligence and professional malpractice lawyers in The Best Lawyers of Australia.  He was named  Lawyer of the Year (Perth) in Professional Malpractice Litigation in the 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2027 Editions and Lawyer of the Year (Perth) in Medical Negligence in the 2026 Edition.

Mark’s full curriculum vitae is available upon request.

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