Key Expertise:
Banking: disputes, security enforcement and recoveries
External administrations: receiverships, personal and corporate insolvency
Key Experience:
David joined TurksLegal as an undergraduate in 1991. After more than 20 years of experience in enforcing creditors’ rights and insolvency, David now heads our Banking Group. Given his long experience and expertise in insolvency, David continues to conduct and supervise litigation and projects in the area Commercial Disputes & Transactions.
David led the teams who acted for the successful plaintiffs in important cases concerning workers compensation premium recovery: Allianz v Fyna Formwork [2001] NSWSC 657 (NSW Supreme Court – the leading case on the deliberate mis-description of the insured to avoid the impost of substantial premium) and GIO Workers Compensation (NSW) Ltd v Joanna’s Productions [2005] NSWSC 1314 (NSW Supreme Court - a case which provides authority on how to deal with a change in the identity of employers operating the same business during the policy year).
In the area of Banking Litigation, David heads teams in Sydney and Melbourne who act for Big 4 and regional banks.
In 2003, David was invited to join the NSW Supreme Court’s specialist Corporations List Users’ Group. This is a group of senior practitioners (both barristers and solicitors) and regulators that liaise directly with the Court’s administrative and judicial officers concerning the running of the lists and developments in the law.
In 2006, David was appointed a member of the Law Council of Australia’s specialist Insolvency and Reconstruction Law Committee. The Law Council's Committee consists of legal practitioners with specialised legal knowledge and experience in insolvency that provide guidance to the Law Council in its dealings with State and Federal Governments when relevant issues emerge.
Articles David has written appear in the Insolvency Law Bulletin and he has been an instructor on the post-graduate Advanced Insolvency Program run jointly by the University of Southern Queensland and the Insolvency Practitioners’ Association of Australia. He is frequently involved in the organisation, preparation and delivery of both internal and external seminars.
Qualifications:
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Diploma in Law (Barristers and Solicitors Admissions Boards), 1993
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Admitted to practice in NSW (30 June 1994) and the High Court
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