Elisabeth was appointed senior counsel in 2019. She has a general commercial practice at the bar, regularly appearing in the Federal and Supreme Courts around Australia. She also appears in the High Court and various tribunals. Her practice areas for litigation, arbitration and advice include appellate, commercial/contract, corporate and banking, construction, equity, property including strata, succession/family provision, medical/professional negligence.
She is a nationally accredited mediator and has been an expert witness on Australian and New South Wales contract law in Singapore and New Zealand litigation.
She is the editor of the New South Wales Law Reports, the Commercial Law Quarterly and on the editorial board of the Journal of Contract Law. She has been elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (http://www.academyoflaw.org.au/)
She is a Professor from the University of Sydney. She provides legal training to law firms and national corporations and is a regular invited speaker at national and international conferences on aspects of contract, commercial, evidence and procedure, and medical negligence law.
Elisabeth was the associate to Justice Lockhart in the Federal Court and Justice McHugh in the High Court of Australia. She was a Tapp Scholar and Ivan Roberts Scholar at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD on implied terms in contract law.