Displaying ‘considerable strength in commercial disputes,’ 5 Wentworth Chambers’ expertise in commercial disputes extends to a wide variety of matters, from mining, to finance, securities, insolvency and insurance. Members of the set, including Andrew Bulley have appeared in different courts across Australia, such as Fair Work Ombudsman v Commonwealth Bank of Australia which saw Dan Fuller appear in the Federal Court of Australia over a proceeding seeking penalties in relation to alleged underpayments of thousands of employees of one of Australia’s largest banks. Dominique Hogan-Doran SC has led the largest Australian Government legal team in a Royal Commission, while Catherine Bembrick and Anna Elizabeth are further key names from the set.
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Catherine has appeared in matters involving cartel conduct (criminal and civil), misuse of market power, other anticompetitive agreements and contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law. Her intellectual property experience includes patent, trade mark and copyright litigation. Catherine also regularly appears in employment and industrial matters including unfair dismissal, adverse action and restraints of trade.
Catherine is recognised in the Chambers & Partners 2025 guide for both Employment and Intellectual Property; the Legal 500 guide 2024 as a leading junior counsel in Australia for both Competition Law and Intellectual Property; and is also listed in the 2024, 2023 and 2022 Doyle’s Guide “Leading Intellectual Property Junior Counsel – NSW”.
Prior to becoming a barrister, Catherine was a Senior Associate at Allens Linklaters in the competition team, an Associate at Slaughter and May in London and Associate to the Hon Justice Bennett AC of the Federal Court of Australia. Catherine holds a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge specialising in competition law and intellectual property.
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Catherine is also the Chair of the Medicines Australia Code of Conduct Committee (Australia’s prescription pharmaceutical industry body) and lectures in evidence law for the University of Sydney Law Extension Committee.
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'The set displays considerable strength in commercial disputes, reflected by the regularity of briefs from major firms.'
'5 Wentworth is a long-established an well known chambers with a number of barristers experiences in commercial disputes.'
'The clerks are always helpful.'
'The Chambers team are professional and very helpful.'
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