Simon Matters

LL.B. [Hons]
Simon Matters
  • Chambers: Floor 5, Room 516, ODCE
  • Year Admitted: 2002
  • Year Signed Bar Roll: 4th November, 2004
  • Admitted to Practice in: Victoria, Federal Jurisdictions..
  • Phone: 9225 6842
  • Mobile: 0425 801 489
  • Facsimile: 9225 7845
  • E-Mail: matters@vicbar.com.au
  • Areas of Practice
    • Administrative Law
    • Building and Construction Law (Incl Engineering)
    • Commercial Law
    • Common Law
    • Crimes Compensation
    • Crimes/Family Violence/Interv. Orders
    • Equity & Trusts
    • Freedom of Information
    • Insurance Law
    • Leases : Commercial and Retail Tenancies
    • Magistrates Court - Civil
    • Magistrates Court - Crime
    • Property Law/Sale of Land
    • Trade Practices

Prior to coming to the Bar, Simon was an Associate at Abbott Stillman & Wilson (now Dibbs Abbott Stillman) working in the Commercial Litigation department and as part of the Construction and Planning team.

Simon has a broad commercial litigation practice and appears regularly in the Magistrates', County and Supreme Courts of Victoria, VCAT, the Federal Magistrates' Court and Federal Court of Australia.

Recent Cases

Alma Hill Constructions Pty Ltd v Onal (2007) 16 VR 190.
(Appeal to Supreme Court; Equitable assignment; Joinder; Unjust enrichment).

Mark Morgan v Law Institute of Victoria (Legal Practice) [2007] VCAT 1834
(Legal Profession Act 2004; Contempt οΎ– Stay of suspension of practising certificate pending appeal).

Academic

  • Instructor: Leo Cussen Institute Practical Training Course 2008
  • Author: "Anything You Don't Say May Be Given In Evidence: Protecting The Interests of Justice or Emasculating a Fundamental Right?" (1997) 4 Deakin Law Review 49

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