Vahan Bedrossian

    
  Admitted to the NSW Bar: 25 February 2000

Areas of Practice:
  • Appellate
  • Commercial
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Equity
  • Property
  • Trade Practices
  • Unfair Contracts
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    Since coming to the Bar, Vahan has maintained a practice focused upon Commercial/Equity and Trade Practices matters. His experience has also extended to a number of other areas, including contempt proceedings (both in the Supreme Court and the Family Court – for example, LGM v CAM (Contempt) (No 2) (2008) 38 FamLR 229), real property disputes, and unfair contract proceedings in the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW.

    Vahan has appeared in a number of significant cases (some reported), including:
     

    • Master Education Services Pty Ltd v Ketchell (High Court of Australia) [2008] HCA 38; (2008) 249 ALR 44; (2008) 82 ALJR 1322

      Vahan appeared for the successful Appellant. The case involved the interpretation of s51AE of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) and the Franchising Code of Conduct. Although led by Senior Counsel before the Full Court of the High Court, Vahan advised in relation to and appeared upon the Application for Special Leave to Appeal without a leader.
       
    • Mead v Mead (High Court of Australia) [2007] HCA 25; (2007) 235 ALR 197; (2007) 81 ALJR 1185; (2007) 36 FamLR 608; [2007] FLC 93-327

      Vahan appeared for the successful Appellant. The case related to contempt proceedings. Although led by Senior Counsel before the Full Court of the High Court, Vahan advised in relation to and appeared upon the Application for Special Leave to Appeal without a leader.
       
    • Mitzev v Foxman (NSW Court of Appeal) [2007] NSWCA 273; (2007) 13 BPR 24,989

      Vahan appeared without a leader for the successful Appellant. The case dealt with contractual and equitable principles arising from a real property transaction undertaken through a barter trading scheme.
       
    • Polstar Pty Ltd v Agnew (Supreme Court of NSW) [2007] NSWSC 114; (2007) 208 FLR 226; (2007) 25 ACLC 293

      Vahan appeared for the successful Plaintiff in an application to set aside a creditor’s statutory demand on the basis that the statutory demand constituted an abuse of process.
       
    • Mead v Watson as Liquidator for Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd (NSW Court of Appeal) [2005] NSWCA 133; (2005) 23 ACLC 718

      Vahan appeared for the successful Appellant against a refusal to order indemnity costs personally against a liquidator.
       
    • BL & GY International Co Ltd v Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd (Supreme Court of NSW) [2004] NSWSC 1119

      Vahan appeared for the successful Applicant seeking orders for the removal of a Court-appointed liquidator of a company.
       
    • Hypec Electronics Pty Ltd (in liq) v Mead [2003] NSWSC 934; (2003) 202 ALR 688; (2003) 179 FLR 295

      Vahan appeared for a successful Defendant seeking to rely upon an equitable estoppel and the application of the principles in Ex parte James; Re Condon (1874) LR 9 Ch App 609 so as to resist a claim by a Court-appointed liquidator for recovery of company property.

    Qualifications:

    LLB (Hons) (USyd)
    BEc (Hons) (USyd)

    Membership of Bar Association Committees:

    Vahan has been a member of a Professional Conduct Committee of the NSW Bar Association since 2003.

    Edmund Barton Chambers:

    Vahan has been a director of Edmund Barton Chambers since 2004 and its treasurer since 2008.