Fiona Cameron

• Arbitrators & Mediators
• Commercial Law
• Competition
• Environment & Planning
• Insurance & Reinsurance
• Professional Negligence
• Public Law
• Taxation

Fiona Cameron practises as a barrister, arbitrator and mediator in relation to disputes across Australia and internationally.

Her areas of expertise include technology, engineering and construction disputes; transport, aviation and maritime law; complex commercial; and taxation matters. She is recommended in Doyle’s Guides to Leading Construction and Infrastructure Junior Counsel, and to Leading Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Junior Counsel. Fiona also has an interest in sports law, and sits as a member of the Victorian Amateur Football Association’s Independent Integrity Hearing Panel.

​Fiona is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand and a Grade 3 Arbitrator (Resolution Institute). She is a nationally accredited mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation Scheme. Fiona also accepts appointments as tribunal secretary, having completed the ICC’s Training for Tribunal Secretaries.

Recent experience

​Some examples of Fiona’s recent experience include disputes relating to:

• ​energy, mining and resources projects, such as in relation to an LNG facility, renewables projects including wind turbine generators and a solar farm, mining tenements and joint venture arrangements, land fill operations and electricity infrastructure
• ​technology and product liability matters, such as a dispute in relation to the suitability and manufacturing quality of components for a public emergency address system in a large tunnel project, and a dispute concerning the design of a private passenger jet
• ​large scale construction projects, such as the design and construction of a recycled water treatment plant, and various master-planned residential precinct or apartment developments
• ​maritime law, such as in relation to the international carriage of goods and commodities and ship collisions
• ​company and consumer law, contractual breaches and other issues of corporate conduct including allegations of fraudulent conduct, conspiracy to cause economic harm, oppressive conduct and breaches of directors’ duties, and
• transfer pricing as between Australian resident taxpayers and international associated entities

A selected list of Fiona’s recent published cases is available here.  A copy of Fiona’s current CV is available here.

Previous experience

​Before being called to the Bar in 2015, Fiona was Associate to the Honourable Justice Pagone of the Federal Court of Australia, assisting his Honour in a wide range of commercial and public law matters. Prior to this, Fiona was an Associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria to Justices Davies, Bongiorno and Hargrave, where she assisted in matters in the commercial trial division and in criminal and civil appeals. Fiona was previously employed by Crawford Legal, an Adelaide-based boutique commercial and construction law firm.

Fiona regularly presents on topics within her areas of practice, both to firms as part of their CLE programs and through the VicBar CPD program. Her recent CPD presentations have included:

• ‘Making and resisting calls on security under construction contracts’, presented to William Forster Chambers and invited practitioners, March 2021
• ‘In Conversation about the Victorian Commercial Arbitration Scheme’ (moderator), Victorian Bar, September 2020
• ‘Thomas v Commissioner of Taxation – Implications for trustees’, presented to the Victorian Bar and invited practitioners, May 2017 (with Terry Murphy QC and Michael Bearman), to the Australian Taxation Office, June 2017, and to the Tax Institute of Australia’s Litigation Masterclass, September 2017

• ‘Loss minimisation strategies in fraud claims’, presented to AIG Insurance claims teams across the Asia Pacific Region, March 2017 (with Patrick McGrath and Brendan Charles of Sparke Helmore, and Craig Macaulay and David Lehmann of Korda Mentha)

• ‘Income tax, CGT and GST on Judgments and Settlements’, presented to litigators from HWL Ebsworth, November 2016 (with Michael Bearman)

• ‘Hearings in the Federal Court’, presented to Piper Alderman’s graduate program, November 2015

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