Joy Chen

Date of admission to the Bar

2025

Background

Joy accepts briefs in all areas of law.  She has a focus on commercial and public law.

Before coming to the Bar, Joy was a solicitor in the commercial litigation team at Gilbert + Tobin, where she acted for individuals, trustees and corporations in a broad range of first instance and appeal proceedings, covering contract law, class actions, corporate governance and commercial equity.  Joy was also a judge’s associate to the Hon Justice Jacqueline Gleeson in the High Court of Australia and Federal Court of Australia.

Joy’s areas of practice include:

• Administrative and public law
• Arbitration
• Class actions
• Commercial law
• Constitutional law
• Equity
• Insolvency
• Intellectual property
• Media and defamation law
• Public and private international law
• Trade practices and competition law

Qualifications

• Master of Laws, University of Chicago
• Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Sydney
• Bachelor of Design in Architecture, University of Sydney