Qualifications:
Bachelor of Jurisprudence (1977), University of Western Australia.
Bachelor of Laws (1978), University of Western Australia.
Area of expertise:
Insurance law is Greg's area of expertise. His current practice is substantially focused on acting on the instructions of insurers in professional malpractice claims against lawyers, doctors, insurance brokers and engineers, claims against directors and officers and in public liability claims (property damage and personal injuries).
Professional and academic associations:
- Visiting Fellow in the Department of Law, University of Western Australia.
- Co-ordinator and lecturer in Insurance Law at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Western Australia.
- Past Director on the national board of the Australian Insurance Law Association.
- Past Committee member and past Chairman of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Insurance Law Association.
- Member of the Law Society.
Experience:
- Practised almost exclusively in insurance law since 1984.
- Acted as instructing solicitor and appeared as counsel in trials in the Local, District and Supreme Courts of Western Australia and in appeals to the District and Supreme Courts of Western Australia and the High Court of Australia.
- Conducted and appeared as counsel in insurance and tort litigation.
- Act for insurance companies on matters involving insurance claims.
- Act for insurance companies in drafting insurance policies and policy wordings.
Work history:
- Articles of Clerkship at Downing & Downing, Perth and the Independent Bar 1978-1980.
- Construction department of insurance brokers Willis Faber & Dumas, London 1981.
- Commercial litigation department of Clifford-Turner, London 1981-1983.
- Commercial litigation department of Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1983-1996.
- Partner in Mallesons Stephen Jaques 1987-1996.
- Partner in Pynt and Partners since April 1996.