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Appellate | Banking & Finance | Bankruptcy Law & Insolvency Law | Commercial Law | Competition Law & Consumer Law | Corporations Law & Securities Law | Equity & Trusts Law | Property Law | Public Law & Administrative Law | Wills & Estates Law |

Profile

Reegan has a general commercial law practice with a particular focus on matters involving trusts, equity and probate law as well as corporations and insolvency law. She has appeared led and unled in both Victorian state courts and Federal courts.

Reegan was a member of the Victorian Bar Council in 2019-2020 (category C). She has been a member of the New Barristers' Committee and the ADR Committee. She is currently a member of the Student Engagement Committee. 

Before joining the Bar, Reegan was the Senior Associate to the Honourable Justice McMillan at the Supreme Court of Victoria. Reegan sat in matters in the Trusts, Equity & Probate List where she supported her Honour on complex trusts and equity matters.

Prior to that, Reegan was the Principal Researcher for the Asian Law Centre (Japan Program) as well undertaking research at the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation at Melbourne Law School. Examples of her publications are listed on her Linkedin profile.

Reegan holds a Masters of Law from the University of Melbourne where she also completed her Juris Doctor. Reegan is an Associate of the Asian Law Centre and also an Honourary Fellow of Melbourne Law School, co-teaching Insolvency Law in the Juris Doctor Program with Michael Gronow KC.

In addition to her legal qualifications, Reegan holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours, majoring in Japanese and Politics, from the University of Queensland. She worked for the Japanese government (Kobe City) for 3 years and is fluent in Japanese.

Recent Cases

• Re Hall [2023] VSC 482 (11 August 2023) (application for statutory will pursuant to s 21 of the Wills Act 1997)/span>
• Lifestyle Holdings Australia & New Zealand Pty Ltd/span>
• in the matter of Venice Lane Pty Ltd (in liq) v Wu [2023] FCA 795 (13 July 2023) (default judgment application; assignment of liquidators' statutory causes of action under s 100-5 of the Insolvency Practice Schedule (Corporations); ss 9; 91; 513C; 588FA; 588FB; 588FC; 588FDA; 588FE and 588FF Corporations Act 2001)/span>
• O'Halloran v Coffey (No 3) [2023] VSC 130 (23 March 2023) (costs; estate litigation)/span>
• Bryant v Badenoch Integrated Logging Pty Ltd [2023] HCA 2 (8 February 2023) (peak indebtedness rule; continuing business relationship; s 588FA Corporations Act 2001 - led by Michael Gronow KC)/span>
•  Lynch v Perpetual Trustees Co Ltd [2022] VSC 702 (16 November 2022) (appeal from decision of Associate Justice; prima facie case to revoke grant of probate on the grounds of testamentary capacity and knowledge & approval)/span>
• Re Ghosh [2022] VSC 410 (22 July 2022) (cremation of body; injunctions to restrain person from dealing with estate and company assets)/span>
•  Owies v JJE Nominees Pty Ltd [2022] VSCA 142 (20 July 2022) (whether trustee exercised real and genuine consideration of objects of trust; whether income resolution made without giving real and genuine consideration to objects of trust void or voidable; removal of trustee - led by Jonathan Evans QC)/span>
•  Re Thompson; Thompson v Chen & Anor [2022] VSC 400 (15 July 2022) (discovery application in TFM claim)/span>
•  Maher v Kuperholz [2022] VSC 224 (9 May 2022) (unlawful occupation of land; mesne profits - led by Rick Wells)/span>
•  Re McPhee; Perpetual Trustees Co Ltd v Lynch [2022] VSC 213 (29 April 2022) (application for revocation)/span>
•  Re Matthews [2022] VSC 15 (25 January 2022) (contested probate application)/span>
• Carroll v Goff [2021] VSCA 267 (21 September 2021) (probate application - construction of codicil)/span>
• Laird v Laird & Anor [2021] VSC 352 (18 June 2021) (proprietary estoppel claim - led by Sam Hay QC)/span>
• Badenoch Integrated Logging Pty Ltd v Bryant - in the matter of Gunns Limited (in liq) (receivers and managers appointed) [2021] FCAFC 64 (10 May 2021) (preference claim - whether running account or good faith receipt defences apply - whether doctrine of peak indebtedness applies to s 588FA(3) - led by Michael Gronow QC)/span>
• Re Christu; Christu v Christu [2021] VSC 162 (31 March 2021) (Part IV claim by estranged adult son)/span>
• Re Owies Family Trust (No 3) [2021] VSC 114 (15 March 2021) (application for leave to amend pleadings - consideration of distinction between void and voidable decisions of a trustee - led by Jonathan Evans QC)/span>
• Re Owies Family Trust (No 2) [2021] VSC 14 (27 January 2021) (application to admit fresh evidence - led by Jonathan Evans QC)/span>
• Re Owies Family Trust [2020] VSC 716 (28 October 2020) (construction of trust deed - whether real and genuine consideration given to objects of trust - removal of trustee - led by Jonathan Evans QC)/span>
• Joss v Joss [2020] VSC 424 (4 August 2020) (Part IV claim by estranged adult daughter in large estate - led by Simon Pitt)/span>
•  Bryant - in the Matter of Gunns Limited (in Liq) (Receivers and Managers Appointed) v Badenoch Integrated Logging Pty Ltd [2020] FCA 713 (unfair preferences under s 588FA of the Corporations Act 2001 - led by Michael Gronow QC)/span>
• Re Gleeson [2019] VSC 589 (application for grant of letters of administration - whether domestic partner at the date of deceased's death)/span>
• Re Valkenburg; Valkenburg v Valkenburg [2019] VSC 550 (proper jurisdiction for probate - location of company shares)/span>
• Zeninvest Pty Ltd v Altus Development Pty Ltd [2019] VSC 363 (31 May 2019) (application under s 459S of the Corporations Act 2001 - led by Michael Gronow QC)/span>
• CC Growth Pty Ltd v Amiga Growth No 2 Pty Ltd [2019] VSC 340 (estoppel - scope of directors' fiduciary duties - unclean hands - breach of contract - led by Chris Brown and Michael Galvin QC)/span>
• Seoud v Fortythird Garland Pty Ltd [2019] VSC 192 (statutory interest on sum recovered in proceeding and whether beneficiary of a discretionary trust is a 'creditor' of the trustee)/span>
• Re Black [2019] VSC 29 (contradictor in an application for a grant in respect of an informal will)/span>
• Marc & Adam Station Pier Pty Ltd v Schiavello Bros Properties Pty Ltd (Building and Property) [2018] VCAT 1905 (application under s 75 of the VCAT Act - led by Jonathan Evans QC)/span>
• Re Haynes [2018] VSC 778 (application pursuant to rr 54.02 and 75.08 of the Supreme Court (General Civil Procedure) Rules 2015 for payment of legacy and interest on the legacy)/span>
• Re Theodoulou [2018] VSC 601 (caveat proceeding objecting to grant of probate on the basis of undue influence and knowledge & approval - led by Michael Wise QC)/span>
• Maher v Maher [2018] VSC 318 (application for an extension of time under Part IV - led by Rick Wells)/span>
• Pandolfo v Finadri & Ors [2018] VSC 211 (preliminary discovery application)/span>
• Higgins v Wilkinson (Ruling) [2017] VCC 1942 (costs application)/span>
• Higgins v Wilkinson [2017] VCC 1534 (Part IV application by adult daughter)/span>
• Food and Beverage Australia Ltd v Andrews [2017] VSCA 258 (acting for an administrator in an action for debt - led by Michael Galvin QC)/span>

To get in touch with Reegan Morison | or for more information please contact the Clerk on:

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