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Ben advises individuals and businesses, large and small, on a full range of commercial matters including trade practices, insurance and partnership disputes, regulation and compliance, building and construction, compulsory acquisition, property and professional negligence.
Ben acts for a number of small and medium-size enterprises and has a particular expertise in class actions. He has worked on major litigation including the second round of Ok Tedi litigation, class actions arising from the collapse of Money for Living and Henry Kaye’s National Investment Institute. Ben is currently conducting a class action against a number of defendants arising from the migration of landfill gas from a disused landfill in Cranbourne. He is also jointly managing the delivery of services to over 2000 clients participating in the CBA Storm Financial Resolution Scheme.
Expertise
- Trade Practices
- Insurance & partnership disputes
- Regulation & compliance
- Building & construction
- Compulsory acquisition
- Property
- Professional negligence.
Career history
- since 2001 Slater & Gordon (practice group leader)
Professional qualifications & admissions
- 2002 Admitted, Supreme Court of Victoria
- 2001 Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
- 2001 Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne