Justin Wheelahan

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Justin Wheelahan provides clear and pragmatic advice to assists client's make informed forensic decisions. Justin’s main areas of practice are copyright, trade marks, confidential information, passing off, and cognate claims arising under the ACL and Corporations Act. Justin holds a Masters Degree from Monash University in Intellectual Property, and is a contributing author to Lexis Nexis’s Patents, Trade Marks and Related Rights. He advises and appears in cases involving all aspects of infringement, validity and ownership, and was recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia (Intellectual Property) 2025.

Justin is an experienced trial advocate and cross-examiner, and regularly appears in the Federal Court and Supreme Court. He also appears in all jurisdictions across a wide range of practice areas including general commercial law, equity, property and administrative law. His analytic thinking and persuasive written work lends itself to appellate advocacy. He accepts briefs in reviews of regulatory decisions on the merits before the ART and VCAT, judicial reviews to superior courts, and appeals to state Courts of Appeal and the High Court.

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