Llewellyn Judd

Llewellyn is a barrister at 8 Wentworth Chambers and Hemmant’s List specialising in disputes involving class actions, contract law, competition and consumer law, personal and corporate insolvency law, corporations law, succession law, land law, professional negligence law, employment law, taxation debt recovery and personal injury.

Llewellyn holds a Master of Banking and Finance Law from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Laws from the University of Queensland, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, a Graduate Diploma of Applied Law (Wills and Estates) from the College of Law and a Diploma in Law from the Legal Practitioners Admission Board.

With over ten years of experience at the Bar, Llewellyn has a busy civil practice that spans across New South Wales and Queensland. He has appeared on trials and applications in the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Courts of New South Wales and Queensland, and other state courts and tribunals. He has also appeared as junior counsel on appeals to the intermediate appellate courts of New South Wales and Queensland.

Llewellyn has successfully represented parties at mediation and in other forms of dispute resolution. Llewellyn is committed to providing high-quality legal services to his clients.

Llewellyn is admitted to the High Court of Australia.

Matthew McGirr

Matthew is a highly regarded junior counsel, with a wide-ranging practice primarily focussed on commercial law, common law (including intentional torts), superannuation, property law, construction, strata, and general equity. Matthew regularly appears in all Federal and State courts and tribunals. Matthew will accept briefs in all areas of law.

Prior to being called to the bar, Matthew was a solicitor for over 7 years. Immediately prior to the bar, Matthew was a Senior Solicitor at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), where he advised APRA in relation to several high profile contentious and non-contentious matters.

Prior to APRA, Matthew practised at law firms Herbert Smith Freehills and Gilbert + Tobin. During this period, Matthew acted for some of Australia’s leading companies, including Westpac, CBA, Bupa, Telstra, JP Morgan Australia. Matthew also worked on a number of class actions and commissions of inquiry.

Matthew has also worked as a policy adviser and lawyer at the Australian Institute of Company Directors, where he worked closely with governments, directors, and stakeholders important legal policy issues, including the insolvency safe harbour reforms.

Matthew graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in history. Matthew then graduated from the University of NSW with a Juris Doctor with Honours.

Christopher Bevan

Chris Bevan is a member of Eight Wentworth Chambers, having joined the floor in 1998.

He came to the New South Wales Bar in 1991 and has been a member of the Victorian and Queensland Bars for over 20 years and is currently a member of Chancery Chambers in Melbourne. A detailed curriculum vitae for Chris is available on this website.

Chris practises primarily in the areas of legal costs (both costs litigation and assessment), taxation (Commonwealth and State), company law (including shareholder disputes), trust law (including the law relating to charities and not-for-profit companies) and insolvency law.

He has appeared in a number of complex appeals during the last 25 years, including as leading counsel on 12 occasions in special leave applications and on three occasions in appeals to the High Court, in addition to conducting many appeals in the Full Federal Court and Courts of Appeal in New South Wales and Victoria as leading counsel.

Chris is the author of texts on corporations law, insolvency law, capital gains tax and stamp duty and has chaired, or has been a member of, a number of eminent committees at the Tax Institute, Bar Association of New South Wales and Australian Bar Association over 30 years.

Having had 30 years’ experience as a senior advisor to the Inspector-General of Taxation and on boards of various companies, Chris brings to his work for clients this expertise in areas including taxation law and corporate governance.

He has a particular interest in advising and appearing for managers and owners of small and medium enterprises, an interest reflected in his membership as a senior advisor on a Panel of Legal Advisors of the Federal Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman.

Chris has extensive experience in drafting and vetting legislation, with a particular interest in legislation in the areas of tax, corporate and costs law, as reflected in his work as a member of committees on the enactment of Commonwealth and State tax legislation and costs assessment and in reforms to the Corporations Law undertaken by the Federal Attorney-General’s Department under the Corporate Law and Economic Reform Program (CLERP).

He also has experience lecturing at the University of New South Wales on international tax and corporate taxation law within the ATAX postgraduate taxation teaching program and has given many seminars for the Tax Institute, Bar Association of New South Wales, Law Society of New South Wales and many continuing legal education seminar providers over the last 25 years.