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Craig Smith SC

Asia-Pacific 2026

List G Barristers

Ranked in 1 practice area

Intellectual Property: The Bar

Australia

4 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Craig Smith SC practises in commercial law, with a specialisation in intellectual property, contract, Australian Consumer Law and confidential information disputes.

Craig has more than 25 years’ experience working in these areas, including more than 15 years at the Victorian Bar. He has a Chemical Engineering Degree (Honours, Owen Potter Award for top graduate, Monash University), and frequently acts in proceedings involving technical and scientific subject matter, including chemistry, biotechnology, pharmacology, materials science, mechanics, electronics and physics.

Craig regularly appears in the Federal Court, Supreme Court, County Court, Patents Office and Trade Marks Office.

Before coming to the Bar in 2009, Craig was a Senior Associate at Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills), and worked in its litigation and intellectual property groups for 10 years. He also has a Bachelor of Laws (Honours, Monash University), and a Master of Laws (H1 average, University of Melbourne).

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Chambers Review

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Chambers Asia & Pacific

Intellectual Property: The Bar - Australia

Band 3

Individual Editorial

Craig Smith SC has a background in chemical engineering and often appears in cases involving technical scientific issues, including biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. He focuses on patent and trade mark cases.

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Strengths

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Craig is always available, technically very able and commercially astute.
Intellectual Property: The BarChambers Asia & Pacific
Craig is quite unflappable. No matter how severely under pressure we may be, he is always cool, calm and collected.
Intellectual Property: The BarChambers Asia & Pacific