Ian George
 

Admission date as a Barrister: 6 May 1983

Qualifications

Construction experience

Water Board, Land and Engineering Survey Draftsman 1962 –1970

Civil & Civic Project and Site Engineer 1970- 1974

Ralph M. Parsons Project Engineer 1974- 1975

Ian Turner & Partners, Project Engineer 1975 – 1976

Dept. of Health, Project Director, Sydney Hospital Redevelopment
St. Vincent’s Hospital redevelopment  1976- 1983

Legal Practice areas and experience.

I am a practicing Barrister in my 28th year of admission; my practice is primarily in the areas of Commercial litigation particularly matters involving Construction and Engineering Disputes to $100m, Arbitration as Counsel and Arbitrator and multiple Mediations both as Mediator and participating Counsel
with some crime to Supreme Court level.

During this time I also spent 3 years [1996–1999] as a District Court Judge where I had control of the Building List for considerable periods of time and conduct of the Motions list.

I was also a part time Member of the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal sitting primarily on Residential Construction disputes. While on the Tribunal I gained considerable experience with litigants in person.

Appointments

Judge District Court 1996-1997
Judge District Court 1997-1998 (Re-appointed)
Judge District Court 1998-1999 (Re-appointed)

Member, Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal
[Part Time] March 2002 to 31 December 2005

Arbitrator District Court [January 2003 – December 2004]
Arbitrator Local Court [January – December 2003]

Arbitrator approved by the NSW Bar Association

Expert Determiner approved by the NSW Bar Association

Probity Auditor, Leighton Contractors, 2 July 2004 and continuing.

Sydney City Council Panel Barrister.