Georgia Douglas

• Class Actions
• Commercial Law
• Competition
• Equity
• Inquests & Inquiries
• Insurance & Reinsurance
• Intellectual Property
• Media, Entertainment & Broadcast
• Professional Negligence
• Public Law
• Sports, Gaming & Licensing

Georgia maintains a broad commercial practice, both as sole counsel and as junior.

Georgia regularly appears in state and federal courts and tribunals.  She has particular expertise in large scale litigation, class actions and matters involving complex expert issues, including contamination. Some of Georgia’s other recent matters concern:

• Consumer and trade practices law
• Property, building and construction disputes
• Insurance law
• Corporate fraud and vicarious liability
• Contractual disputes
• Professional negligence
• Corporations law applications
• Shareholder oppression
• Appellate and Judicial review
• Various interlocutory applications

Prior to joining the Bar, Georgia was the Associate to Justice John Dixon in the Supreme Court of Victoria, in the common law division of the court. Georgia also worked as a solicitor at the Melbourne office of Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King and Wood Mallesons) in the Litigation and Intellectual Property departments.

Georgia holds an LLM from the University of Melbourne, where her studies focused upon equity and commercial law, intellectual property, royal commissions and inquiries and torts. Georgia has been a Tutor at Queen’s College in the University of Melbourne and a Lecturer at Leo Cussens and RMIT, teaching Law & Regulation in the Masters of Communication program.

Georgia is actively involved in providing pro bono assistance to the community through the Bar’s Pro Bono Scheme and as a member of the barrister panel for the Consumer Action Law Centre.

Georgia is the author of a legal blog examining current legal trends: www.withoutprejudice.blog and regularly presents CPDs on various topics, some of which are accessible above under the tab ‘Publications’.

Georgia is also a member of the Queensland Bar Association. A copy of Georgia’s CV can be found here.

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