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Bruce Taylor

Qualifications

BA (Syd); LLB (NSW)

Admitted as a solicitor

1994

Called to Bar

December 2011

Appointed Senior Counsel

Bruce joined Hunter Street Chambers from William Forster Chambers in Darwin. Prior to that time Bruce was Special Counsel at Minter Ellison.

Bruce initially worked as a clerk at the NSW DPP in between studies at the University of NSW. After graduating he moved to Darwin and commenced work at Cridlands, where he undertook a variety of litigation and dispute work. In 1999, Bruce moved back to Sydney where he worked with PriceWaterhouseCoopers Legal, and subsequently set up a boutique employment and litigation practice in the city with a colleague.

He has appeared as an advocate in various NSW and NT jurisdictions in litigation, employment/OH&S and criminal matters acting for the DPP, Legal Aid and NAAJA. He has also acted as a commercial procurement and Governance consultant to the Royal Australian Air Force; was appointed Statutory Manager of the Groote Eylandt Aboriginal Trust and was a Councillor for the Law Society of the Northern Territory. Bruce is also a nationally accredited Mediator.  Bruce has appeared in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and regularly practices in Commercial Law, Family Law, NCAT and disputed Estates.

Memberships:

  • Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia
  • Fellow the Chartered Secretaries Institute of Australia
  • Member of the Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators

He has appeared as an advocate in various NSW and NT jurisdictions in litigation, employment/OH&S and criminal matters acting for the DPP, Legal Aid and NAAJA. He has also acted as a commercial procurement and Governance consultant to the Royal Australian Air Force; was appointed Statutory Manager of the Groote Eylandt Aboriginal Trust and was a Councillor for the Law Society of the Northern Territory. Bruce is also a nationally accredited Mediator.  Bruce has appeared in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and regularly practices in Commercial Law, Family Law, NCAT and disputed Estates.

Memberships:

  • Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia
  • Fellow the Chartered Secretaries Institute of Australia
  • Member of the Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators

Practice Areas

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
CONTRACT DISPUTES
CORPORATIONS LAW
CRIMINAL LAW

EQUITY, INCLUDING ESTATE DISPUTES
INQUESTS AND COMMISSIONS
FAMILY LAW
BUILDING DISPUTES

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION – COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY LAW MEDIATOR