Lindy Barrett

A broad range of commercial disputes, such as:

• General contractual matters;
• Partnership, shareholder and trustee disputes;
• Sale of business disputes, including restraints of trade;
• Consumer protection claims, including misleading and deceptive conduct claims;
• General insurance matters, including professional negligence claims;
• Property litigation, including retail lease disputes;
• Banking and finance, particularly mortgage and guarantee litigation;
• Onsolvency matters ranging from bankruptcy to liquidators’ claims
• Large scale fraud recovery matters (including obtaining search and freezing orders); and
• Environmental litigation, and in particular claims made under s62(2A) of the Environment Protection Act 1972;.
• General negligence claims, including personal injury matters (both statutory benefits and common law claims), as well as class actions; and
• Royal Commissions. Most notably in 2009 to 2010, in the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission and 2013 to date, in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

• Immediately before joining the Bar, Lindy was a Senior Associate at Herbert Geer & Rundle (now Thomson Geer), in the Commercial Litigation Group.
• 2009 to 2010 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission
• 2013 to 2017 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
• Murrindindi-Marysville Bushfire Class Action, including Liesfield v SPI Electricity Pty Ltd (No 3) [2014] VSC 346
• 2017 Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory