Francesca brings a commercial and practical perspective to navigating the complexities of employment law and resolving workplace issues. She has broad experience advising clients in the public and private sectors in all aspects of employment law and industrial relations. Francesca is also experienced in assisting with the defence of work health and safety prosecutions and responding to safety incidents.
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John is a senior associate specialising in employment and workplace law with experience in commercial, consumer, equity, employment, family, and land & environment disputes. He frequently advises clients on issues arising from terms of employment contracts, general protection claims, dismissals, redundancies, and restraints of trade.
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Stephanie specialises in planning and environment law, with a particular focus on Land and Environment Court litigation and assisting local government clients to understand their statutory duties and powers.
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Stephen’s background is as a corporate and commercial lawyer who also represented private clients in complex commercial litigation and dispute resolution matters before major courts and tribunals. Stephen’s experience covers many different industries and clients ranging from listed public companies to family businesses. Since joining Sparkes, Stephen has been using his skills and experience to advise the firm’s Government clients.
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Ben primarily practises in procurement, contracting and negotiations for government agencies in relation to information technology, platforms and services. During the last five years, he has been involved in a number of significant projects.
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Juliana is an Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law and has more than 18 years’ experience in the insurance industry. She specialises in liability matters including personal injury, work injury damages, professional negligence and CTP claims.
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Domenic specialises in state workers’ compensation matters, and more generally injury-based compensation claims. He has extensive experience appearing in the SA Employment Tribunal. He also practises in our Commercial Insurance team.
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Beth is a member of our Maritime & Transport team, with a wealth of experience in tortious and contractual disputes. She has a particular interest in the role that litigation can play in the environmental space, having submitted a dissertation for her LLM exploring circumvention of the channelling and damages provisions of the 1992 Civil Liability Convention on Oil Pollution. More recently, she has written on climate change, looking at the rise in novel duty of care claims and the risks facing the insurance industry. Her peers have recognised her as One to Watch in the Best Lawyers’ list for Insurance Law (2024, 2023, 2022).
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Emma advises claims managers, self-insurers, employers and government agencies on Commonwealth statutory classes of insurance issues, at both the claims management and litigation stages. Her clients value her strategic approach.
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Paul has more than 25 years' experience in all aspects of property, town planning and environment law—acting for developers, government and statutory authorities, landlords, fund managers and investors. He has a wealth of experience in major mixed use and community strata title projects. Paul has acted for some of Australia's largest developers in landmark Queensland projects. He advises on all aspects of a project, from due diligence, site acquisition, to development, titling, body corporate structuring, and project sales.
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Rebecca is a property and commercial lawyer specialising in developments, commercial sales, business sales and leasing.
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Matthew is an experienced banking and finance lawyer across a range of industries and the full range of debt products, with a focus on business banking, real estate finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, food & beverage, construction, project and infrastructure, and asset finance. Matthew also has expertise in cross-border club and syndicated financings as well as security and restructuring issues, including intercreditor and subordination arrangements.
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Edwina is a corporate and commercial lawyer specialising in private and public mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate governance and company secretarial matters.
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Christopher specialises in public and administrative law. He regularly appears as a solicitor advocate in the Federal Court and Federal Circuit Court and Family Court in judicial review proceedings and the Administrative Review Tribunal in merits review proceedings.
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Emanuel is a senior commercial lawyer who specialises in property development and leasing matters. His extensive knowledge on all aspects of complex property, finance, environmental, commercial, corporate, leasing and telecommunications matters is highly valued by his clients.
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For more than 20 years, Joanne has managed an extensive insurance litigation practice in the mining industry. She frequently appears before relevant Commissions and Courts and assists large self-insured companies.
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Marie specialises in the defence of claims for professional negligence, coronial inquiries, professional conduct complaints and disciplinary proceedings and criminal matters on behalf of medical indemnity insurers, medical practitioners, nurses and healthcare facilities.
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Rossana regularly advises and represents the public and private sector on work health and safety (WHS) issues, compliance and WorkCover prosecutions. Having worked as the principal lawyer in the prosecutions branch of WorkCover NSW, Rossana understands what this regulator is striving to achieve and how to engage with it.
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