Areas of Practice
• Administrative Law (Judicial Review)
• Administrative Law (Merits Review)
• Commercial Law
• Corporations and Securities
• Equity/Trusts
• Insurance
• Professional Negligence
• Taxation
• Transport Accident Commission

Philip Solomon

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

1997 to date

Practice as a barrister of the Victorian Bar. Areas of practice include administrative law, commercial and corporations law, equity and trusts, taxation, insurance, contracts, professional negligence, transport accident and accident compensation law.

Read with Justice Maxwell, President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Reported cases in which I have appeared include the following:

In the High Court:

Andar Transport v. Brambles Limited (2004) 217 CLR 424.
Roy Morgan Research Centre v. Commissioner of State Revenue (2001) 207 CLR 72.


In the Supreme Court - Court of Appeal:

Barwon Spinners v. Podolak [2005] VSCA 33.
Transport Accident Commission v. Sweedman (2004) 10 VR 31.
Arjon Pty Ltd v. Commissioner of State Revenue (2003) 8 VR 502.
Commissioner of State Revenue v. Royal and Sun Alliance (2003) 54 ATR 339.
Connelly v. MMI Workers Compensation (2003) 6 VR 555.
Transport Accident Commission v. Lincoln (2003) 6 VR 199.
Brambles Ltd v. Andar Transport (2002) 5 VR 169.
Victorian Teachers Credit Union v. KPMG (2000) 1 VR 654.
Rio Tinto v. Commissioner of State Revenue (2000) 1 VR 108.
Richards v. Wylie (2000) 1 VR 79.
Ipex Software v. Hosking [2000] VSCA 239.
Swannell v. Farmer [1999] 1 VR 299.
Mobilio v. Balliotis [1998] 3 VR 833.
Australian Football League v. Williams [1998] 2 VR 546.
Leibler v. Air New Zealand [1998] 2 VR 525.
In the Supreme Court:

XCB v. Creative Brands [2005] VSC 424.
Martinez v. Dynamic Engineering Construction [2005] VSC 204.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia v. White (No. 1) / (No. 2) [2004] VSC 267/268.
Royal and Sun Alliance v. Commissioner of State Revenue (2002) 50 ATR 476.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission v. MYOB (2002) 41 ACSR 44.
Gennimatas v. Transport Accident Commission (2002) 5 VR 547.
Commissioner of State Revenue v. Famajohn Nominees [1999] VSC 383.
Talackos v. Talacko [1999] VSC 81.
In the Full Court of the Federal Court:

Lavrick v. Lease Auto (2002)125 FCR 399.
Yates v. Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (2000) 101 FCR 543.
May v. Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (1999) 92 FCR 152.


In the Federal Court:

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission v. Visy Industries [2006] FCA 136.
Australian Securities & Investments Commission; in re Giann & Giann [2005] FCA 81.
Australian Hospital Care v. Commissioner of Taxation of Commonwealth of Australia (2000) 105 FCR 20.
May v. Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (1998) 40 ATR 131.
1992 - 1997

Articled clerk and then solicitor at Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks.

Position involved assistance in numerous commercial matters, and in particular the dispute brought by many thousands of villagers against OK Tedi Mining Limited and the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited.

B. EDUCATION

Tertiary Education:

Queens’ College, University of Cambridge

Awarded Master of Law Degree in 1994, with First Class Honours.

Subjects studied:

Corporations and securities law H1
International commercial litigation H1
Restitution and remedies H1
Administrative law H2.1
Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust
Queens’ College – Foundation Scholar


University of Melbourne

Awarded Bachelor of Laws Degree in 1991, with First Class Honours.

Placed 7th in an Honours Class List of 87 in a graduating class of 264

Mallesons Stephen Jaques Exhibition for Litigation, 1991
Butterworths Book Prize for Credit and Security Law, 1991
Arthur Phillips and Just Exhibition for Company Law, 1990
Sir George John Turner Exhibition for Legal Process, 1987
(Also, State Chamber of Commerce Exhibition in Economics A, 1987)


Secondary Education:

Melbourne Grammar School (1975 – 1986)

Melbourne Grammar School - School Distinction 1986
J & W Derham Scholarship 1985
W A Syme Scholarship 1983

C. ARTICLES PUBLISHED:

“The Ok Tedi: Papua New Guinea or the Parish of St Mary Le Bow in the Ward of Cheap, a Reply” (1998) Australian Law Journal, at pages 231-239.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.