Overview
Catherine was called to the Bar in 2015, after ten years’ experience as a solicitor advising on complex commercial and regulatory matters. She is known for her client focused, strategic and specialist expertise.
Catherine advises clients across a range of sectors including transport, manufacturing, education, gaming and pharmaceuticals. She regularly appears unled in both first instance and appellate matters and has expertise cross-examining lay and expert witnesses.
Catherine’s practice is broad and spans intellectual property, competition and consumer, employment and discrimination law. She is recognised nationally as an expert in each of those areas, including by Chambers & Partners for both Employment and Intellectual Property (2026); Best Lawyers Australia for Labour and Industrial Law (2026); the Legal 500 guide in each of Competition Law, Intellectual Property and Commercial Disputes (2024-2026); and Doyle’s Guide as a leading junior counsel for both Intellectual Property (2022-2026) and Competition (2025).
Prior to becoming a barrister, Catherine was a Senior Associate at Allens Linklaters in the competition team, an Associate at Slaughter and May in London and Associate to the Hon Justice Bennett AC of the Federal Court of Australia. Catherine holds a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge specialising in competition law and intellectual property.
Catherine is also the Chair of the Medicines Australia Code of Conduct Committee (Australia’s prescription pharmaceutical industry body) and lectures in employment law advocacy for the University of Sydney.
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