Alec Leopold SC
Date of admission to the Bar
1996
Date of appointment as Senior Counsel
2007
Areas of practice
- General commercial litigation, including corporate, contractual, equity and insurance claims, estoppel and misleading conduct;
- A wide range of banking and financial services litigation, for large banks and financial services entities;
- Litigation concerning the Corporations Act and the ASIC Act, including corporate insolvency;
- Fraud and fabrication;
- Professional indemnity;
- Class actions.
Over more than a third of a century in litigation practice, Alec has specialised in particular in:
- a wide range of financial services litigation, especially for banks, including cheque fraud cases and defence of various claims brought by borrowers;
- numerous representative proceedings;
- misleading or deceptive conduct claims, particularly in the context of prospectuses, sale of businesses and retail shopping centres;
- contract and equity, especially estoppel, on which he has published several articles;
- litigation concerning the Corporations Act, including corporate insolvency.
Qualifications
LLB (Hons) (ANU)
Background
Associate to Mason J (High Court) 1981-1983
Commercial Litigation Partner (1988-1995) Allen Allen & Hemsley
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