Amy is a commercial and public law barrister.
She has experience as an advocate (barrister) and attorney (solicitor) in South Africa, in public and administrative law, as well as commercial practice. She was a Judge's Associate in the Supreme Court of Victoria before joining the Victorian Bar, where she has taken briefs in a variety of matters including judicial and merits review, regulatory advice, and commercial disputes.
She read with Kylie Evans KC. Her senior mentor is Alistair Pound SC (now Solicitor-General for Victoria).
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Areas of practice include: Insurance, administrative law (judicial and merits review), commercial disputes (contract disputes, misleading and deceptive conduct), regulatory compliance advice, professional discipline, discrimination and privacy.
Associate to the Honourable Justice John Dixon, then Principal Judge of the Common Law Division, and head of the Major Torts and Group Proceedings Lists. Cases included professional liability and discipline, contractual disputes, judicial review, group proceedings, torts, and defamation.
Practice areas included: administrative/public law, constitutional, commercial (corporations law, regulatory, contractual disputes, shareholder disputes) and competition law.
NYU International Law and Human Rights Fellow guest researcher in the Business and Human Rights Program.
Part-time research assistant to Prof. Wojciech Sadurski in comparative constitutional law and then full-time junior research scholar to Prof. Mary Holland in comparative human rights law and arbitration.
Clerk (Judge's Associate) to Justices Johann van der Westhuizen and then Leona Theron at the highest appellate Court of South Africa.
Attorney (solicitor) practising in the Insolvency, Business Rescue and Debt Recovery Department at Africa's largest law firm.