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Experience

Elizabeth practises in commercial law, specialising in corporations law and trusts. Her breadth of experience, which combines advocacy, academic expertise and board roles, means that she is regularly briefed in complex commercial matters, and has a significant advice practice in addition to her trial practice. She has recently acted in matters involving corporate law and insolvency, equity and trusts, taxation, superannuation, schemes of arrangement, partnership, misleading and deceptive conduct, contractual and equitable remedies and Royal Commissions.

Expertise

Before being called to the Bar, Elizabeth held the Sir Keith Aickin Chair of Company Law at Monash University and was a consultant in the corporate group at Ashurst in Melbourne. She is the author of Minority Shareholders’ Remedies and the co-author of Corporate Law (now in its 4th edition), both published by Oxford University Press, as well as numerous journal articles. Elizabeth has taught subjects including Corporations Law, Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties, Shareholders’ Remedies, Equity and Trusts at Melbourne, Monash and Sydney Universities, and is currently an Honorary (Senior Fellow) at the Melbourne Law School. She is a former External Expert to the Law Department at the London School of Economics.

Boards and Committees

She is a member of the Executive of the Law Council of Australia’s Business Law Section and of the section's Corporations Committee.

Former roles include terms as chair of the Victorian Legal Admissions Academic Course Appraisal Committee. as a member of the Admissions Committee of the Legal Services Council, as a director of ASX Supervisory Review Pty Ltd, as a member of the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee and its Legal Committee, on the executive of CommBar, as a member of the Council of Legal Education and as the Legal Member of the Surveyors Registration Board of Victoria.

From 19th November 2009, Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.