NEWSLETTERS

We are pleased to announce that Andrew Kostopoulos has joined Chambers.

Andrew is a senior junior barrister having been admitted to practice in 1990. His area of practice is primarily in Building & Construction disputes and Security of Payment Act matter as well as Commercial Litigation.

Andrew is a man of many talents: He is a member of the Bar Association Professional Conduct Committee, President of the Australian Lawyers Phil-Hellenic Association, Member of the ADF Australian Army Legal Corps, and over the years has appeared in Royal Commissions and Military Inquiries.

As a senior member of Edmund Barton Chambers Andrew’s knowledge and experience is of great benefit in mentoring junior barristers in the complex area of Building & Construction law.




Once again, our Seminar Series proved to be popular with our solicitors who brief the floor. On each of the evenings of 10, 17 and 24 March we had in excess of 80 in attendance.

We are grateful for the input from our floor members and their contributions in preparing papers on various topics. We were particularly honoured to have The Honourable Justice Margaret Beazley AO and the Honourable Michael McHugh AC QC present papers in this Series.

We thank our solicitors for their support and look forward to our 4th Series in March 2011.




We are delighted to announce that Colin Purdy, formerly of Moray & Agnew, and Matthew Graham, formerly of Kreisson Legal, are joining our floor from May 2010.


 

On 17 April EBC played 11th Floor Selborne/Wentworth Chambers for the Lady Bradman Trophy – unfortunately we lost and the 11th Floor retains the Cup. Thos Hodgson is the Captain of our Team and is confident of getting the Cup back in 2011!