Profile
Stephanie has experience appearing before all State courts and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. She also has gained significant experience appearing in interlocutory matters, including:
- summary judgment;
- jurisdictional challenges;
- security for costs;
- pleadings and discovery applications;
- setting aside default judgments;
- seeking to oppose applications to set aside default judgments; and
- enforcement proceedings.
Stephanie also accepts paperwork briefs, with experience drafting pleadings, advices and submissions.
Stephanie provides clients with clear advice and practical, commercial resolutions to legal issues.
Stephanie practised as a solicitor for almost a decade before joining the Bar.
Previously, she was a Senior Associate at Lander & Rogers in the General Insurance team. She acted in a wide range of insurance matters including:
- on behalf of a defendant accounting company in multiple proceedings in different jurisdictions issued by victims of a fraud perpetrated by a former employee;
- managed investment scheme class action proceedings in the Federal Court; and
- the prosecution by ASIC of directors of a managed investment scheme in the Supreme Court.
Prior to that, Stephanie was a Senior Associate at TressCox in that firm’s Insurance and Commercial Litigation team. Stephanie acted in a range of professional indemnity claims including on behalf of law firms and an accounting firm.
Stephanie also worked as a litigation solicitor at Russell Kennedy Lawyers, acting on behalf of:
- a plaintiff company in the arbitration of a commercial litigation matter;
- plaintiffs in a class action in the Federal Court;
- members of Victoria Police, defending against a plaintiff claiming damages in respect of allegations of false imprisonment, assaults, malicious prosecution, and defamation; and
- various organisations in coronial inquests.
Prior to studying a Bachelor of Laws (Monash), Stephanie completed a Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Monash). This was followed by a Master of Laws (Monash).
Stephanie is a native French speaker. She spent 10 years living on the French Riviera having completed her French Scientific Baccalauréat before returning to study at Monash University in Melbourne. Stephanie was a Committee Member of the French Australian Lawyers Society (FALS) over a number of years.
Stephanie read with Simon Pitt and her senior mentor is Roisin Annesley QC.
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