Robert Dick SC

Practice Areas

Robert practises widely in complex commercial litigation including representative proceedings, company law, contractual disputes, financial services, regulatory, insolvency, employment and insurance. Robert provides advice across a wide range of legal areas, and appears in trials, applications and appeals, as well as domestic and international arbitrations.

Recent cases in which Robert has appeared or is appearing include:

representing Network Ten in its cross-claim in the Lehrmann defamation trial against Lisa Wilkinson (2024);

representing McDonald’s Australia in Federal Court representative proceedings (2024);

representing Firstmac in Federal Court Civil penalty proceedings commenced by ASIC (2024);

representing Zurich Australian Insurance at trial and on appeal in multi-party insurance proceedings brought by CIMIC Group (2023-2024);

representing AMP in Commercial List and Court of Appeal proceedings brought by Munich Reinsurance and Resolution Life Australia (2024);

representing IG Markets Ltd in Federal Court representative proceedings (2024);

representing Basis Capital in Federal Court representative proceedings against Standard and Poor’s (2024); and

acting in a significant international arbitration hearing (2023-2024).