Phillip Craig

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Commercial Litigation; Insolvency

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor of Commerce – The University of Adelaide
• Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice – The University of Adelaide
• Admitted to practice in South Australia

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS

• Acting for a large public company in the private funding sector to defend a complex securities claim in the Supreme Court of South Australia.
• Acting for private investors in a failed property development scheme to procure the favourable settlement of separate proceedings in the Supreme Court of South Australia and Federal Court of Australia.
• Acting for a large public company in the resources sector to enforce contractual exclusivity rights in the Supreme Court of South Australia.  Successfully obtained relief in a series of highly contested strike-out applications.
• Acting for detention services companies in proceedings brought for psychiatric harm in the Supreme Court of South Australia.
• Acting for the controllers of a defrauded company to recover debts from alleged co-conspirators in the Federal Court of Australia.  Successfully defended a highly contested summary judgment and strike-out application.
• Acting for a public company in a dispute over the enforceability of a “heads of agreement” style document in the District Court of South Australia.
• Advising clients in the educator sector on institutional abuse claims and compliance with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.