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Experience

From 2009 until June 2013, Kateena practised primarily at the Queensland Bar.

Kateena has experience in the following areas:

Commercial Law

• Commercial litigation concerning contracts, trusts and joint ventures.
• Litigation concerning corporate regulation.
• Shareholder litigation.
• Products liability litigation.
• As Lecturer in Corporate Law at Queen Mary, the University of London, Kateena delivered by invitation papers in corporate law at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum (Stanford Law School, May 2009) and at the Third Biennial Public Lecture (Centre for Law and Business, Lagos, Nigeria, 2008).

Tax Law

• Advice and litigation concerning Federal and State tax law.

Public Law

• General administrative litigation in courts and tribunals.
• Judicial review proceedings including review of decisions from the Refugee Review Tribunal.
• Junior counsel for the Commonwealth of Australia before the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry (2011-2012).

Evidential Law

• Applications concerning legal professional privilege and other evidential issues.

Some Recent Cases

• Proceedings against the Office of State Revenue, Queensland concerning payroll tax (led by Jennifer Batrouney QC).
• Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Queensland concerning allegations of negligence and breaches of the ASIC Act and Corporations Act in the provision of financial services.
• Canehire Pty Ltd & Anor v Themis Holdings Pty Ltd [2014] QCA 296 and Themis Holdings Pty Ltd v Canehire Pty Ltd [2014] QSC 38: proceedings concerning allegations of breach of trust and misuse of trust property (led by Michael Stewart QC).
• An application concerning Harman obligations (led by Mark Moshinsky QC).
• Acting on behalf of the class of home insulation businesses before the Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program (led by Michael Windsor SC).

Education

• BA, LLB (Hons) (University of Queensland), BCL (Oxford)
• Rhodes Scholarship
• Rupert Cross Prize in Evidence (Oxford)
• University of Queensland Medal (Law)
• Summer Programme in International Human Rights Law, (University of Oxford and George Washington University Law School)

Previous Employment

• Tutor in Tax Law, University of Queensland (2002)
• Associate to the Honourable Justice Michael McHugh AC, High Court of Australia (2005)
• Lecturer in Corporate Law, Queen Mary, University of London (2008 - 2009)
• Member of the Research Panel, Matrix Chambers, London (2003 - 2009)

From 27 Mar 2014, liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation.