Nick is the Office Partner in Charge of South Australia. He regularly acts for international and domestic insurers, government departments and large corporates with high deductibles who entrust Nick with their most complex and strategically critical litigation in South Australia. His expertise includes the defence of personal injury and property damage liability claims and large scale property damage recovery actions. He also maintains a practice of Compulsory Third Party, medical negligence and product liability matters.
Nick’s clients appreciate his commitment to understanding their business, their procedures and policies and harnessing this understanding in forming litigation strategy and case theory. He has advised across a multitude of industries including hospitality and security, sport and recreation, construction, real estate, medical, transport, logistics and manufacturing.
Nick is known for his sensible and down to earth approach to matters of all complexities. But where commercial resolutions are incapable of being achieved, his clients appreciate his unwavering Courtroom advocacy and his commitment to achieve outstanding judgments.
- Defending some of Australia’s leading supermarket chains against personal injury claims, including in relation to alleged product failures allegedly causing facial burns.
- Providing indemnity advice in injury, property and advertising claims.
- Defending workers compensation recovery claims across all industries, including in labour hire and construction settings.
- Acting on behalf of medical device manufacturers in defence of class actions.
- Defending organisations involved recreational activities such as go-karting. Nick has often successfully defended personal injury litigation in this industry and undertaken inquest services following death.
- Advising on complex contractual indemnity claims involving building sub-contractors and principals.
- Acting on behalf of insurers in large loss recoveries involving fire and water damage, with losses often in the millions. His services routinely involve the engagement of experts on lithium-ion batteries, electrical hardware failure and public water infrastructure.
- Prosecuting construction defect recovery claims.
- Defending claims on behalf of sporting organisations and bodies regarding voluntary assumption of risk and waiver defences.
- Acting on behalf of a hotel’s insurer involving a serious assault and subsequent claim for damages.
- Acting on behalf of a builder’s insurer in defence of a large and complex mould inhalation claim involving various liability and quantum experts.
- Advising most of South Australia’s CTP insurers in defence of complex and strategically critical personal claims. Nick also acts for interstate CTP insurers whose drivers are named in South Australian proceedings.
- Acting in medical negligence claims requiring the engagement of various causation experts.
- Assisting international P&I Insurers and local liability insurers with marine incidents and liability claims arising in South Australian waters including incident response and attending vessels to collect evidence.
- Appearing as Counsel in strategically critical contentious applications and trials.
Memberships
- Law Society of South Australia