
Catherine Bembrick
Phone
+61 2 8066 6145OVERVIEW
Catherine is an experienced practitioner with a wide ranging commercial practice focusing on competition and consumer law, intellectual property, general commercial litigation and employment disputes. She has appeared led and unled in the Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Federal Circuit Court, District Court of New South Wales, IP Australia and the Fair Work Commission.
Before coming to the Bar, 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 AO of the Federal Court of Australia.
Catherine has a Master of Laws (Hons 1) from the University of Cambridge where she focused on competition and intellectual property law and Bachelors of Arts and Laws (Hons 1) from the University of Sydney.
Catherine is also the Chair of the Medicines Australia Code of Conduct and Appeals Committees (Australia’s prescription pharmaceutical industry body) and lectures in Evidence law for the University of Sydney Law Extension Committee.
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- Commissions and Inquiries
- Competition
- Industrial and Employment Law
- Intellectual Property
- Regulatory
- Trade Practices
ADMISSIONS & APPOINTMENTS
Solicitor, NSW |
2006 |
Barrister, NSW |
2015 |
QUALIFICATIONS
LLM (Hons 1) |
University of Cambridge 2009 |
LLB (Hons 1) |
University of Sydney 2005 |
BA |
University of Sydney 2001 |