Maurice Neil RFD KC
Barrister
clerk.11@chambers.net.au
Telephone: 02 8815 9370
Fax: 02 8815 9303
Admitted as Barrister: 1971
Appointed Queen’s Counsel: 1985
Practice areas:
- Appellate
- Commercial Law
- Common Law
- Criminal Law
- Defamation
- Dust Diseases
- Inquiries/Inquests
- Land & Environment
- Property Litigation
- Mediations
He is a specialist advocate who has appeared in numerous cases in common law, equity, defamation, land and environment, personal injury, Commissions of Inquiry, mediations and in various appellate matters.
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He has appeared in Australian Courts and Tribunals and also in Singapore and the Privy Council in England.
He also acts as Mediator and is a Bar Association accredited ADR Arbitrator. He is also a Dust Disease Contributions Assessor.
He is a former Supreme Court Arbitrator and former member of the Federal Parliament.
RECENT CASES:
- Grant v YYH Holdings Pty Ltd – Court of Appeal (NSW) [2012] NSWCA 360 (9/11/12) (Conversion – detinue – progeny of livestock – limitations)
- State of NSW v Beck, Commissioner of Police v Beck [2013] NSWCA 430 (Malicious prosecution – administrative law)
- Chand v CBAs.145/2015 (HC) 1.12.15, [2015] NSWCA 181 (contract, damages)
- Naaman v Sleiman[2015] NSWCA259 (contract, corporations)
- Mosman Municipal Council v Spice[2015] NSWLEC (prosecution – vicarious liability)
- NSW (NSW Police) ats LoweSC 7/3/16 (negligence, psychiatric injury)
- Estate Judd v McNight & Ors (No 4) [2018] NSWSC 1489 (5/10/18) (Personal Injury – claims against estate)
- IAG (NRMA) v Yu – Supreme Court of NSW [2019] NSWSC 400 (12/4/19) (Administrative Law – Judicial Review)
- Salih v Emirates – Court of Appeal (NSW) [2020] NSWCA 215 (10/9/20) (Accident on air flight – Montreal Convention)
- Craig v Toll Pty Limited – Supreme Court of NSW [2021] NSWSC 651 (3/6/21) (Judgement – set off against costs orders)
- R v Macdonald, E and M Obeid – Supreme Court of NSW (No 17) [2021] NSWSC 858 (19/7/21) (Mining Law, conspiracy)
- Mattock v State of NSW (Dept of Education (No2) – Supreme Court of NSW [2021] NSWSC 1045 (19/8/21) (Tort – school sport – Civil Liability Act)
RECENT INQUIRIES
ICAC into political donations, Orange Grove, Burwood, Ryde and Canterbury Councils, conduct of an MP and Royal Commission into Institutional Responses.
