Jonathon has almost 30 years’ experience in legal practice. He maintains a broad national practice encompassing advice and appearance work in: (i) high value commercial disputes and class actions, (ii) appeals in all intermediate courts of appeal and the High Court; (iii) international arbitration and private international law; and (iv) public law, regulatory matters (including competition and consumer law) and commissions of inquiry. He is regularly retained by leading law firms and corporate clients to conduct cases throughout Australia at first instance and on appeal, and internationally, including in arbitrations seated in Singapore, London and New York. He was Vice President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), the peak arbitral body in Australia from 2018 – 2025 . He is also a member of Twenty Essex in Singapore and London. Some of his previous and ongoing clients include BHP Billiton, Caterpillar, CSR, James Hardie, AGL, ATCO, Allianz, McGrath Nicol, Korda Mentha, Chubb, Marsh, Vestas, Samsung, Kimberley Clarke, IOOF, NAB, KPMG, Patersons Securities, and Yara International. He also does a substantial amount of pro bono work for the Human Rights Law Centre.
Anderson v Canaccord Genuity Financial Ltd [2022]
Cherwell Creek Coal Pty Ltd v BHP Queensland Coal
Matthews v CSR & Ors (Supreme Court of Victoria) Supreme Court of Victoria, claims for negligence against parent
Radhika Oswal v Australia and New Zealand Banking
Rinehart v Hancock Prospecting [2019] 267 CLR
TCL Air Conditioner v The Judges of the Federal Court(2013) 251 CLR 533
Westport Gordian v Insurance Corporation v
Gordian Runoff Ltd(2011) 244 CLR 239
Chubb v Moore(2013) 302 ALR 101
TCL Air Conditioner v The Judges of the Federal
BCL, Magdalen College, Oxford (Distinction)
BCL, Magdalen College, Oxford (Distinction)
LLM, Harvard Law School (Gammon Fellow)
BCom; LLB (Hons), University of Adelaide
BCom; LLB (Hons), University of Adelaide