David is an accredited property law specialist who has practised law for over 20 years, specialising in all aspects of property, owners corporation and building and construction law.
His cases cover the full range of property issues from neighbourhood disagreements over fences, disputes involving owners corporations and lot owners, to addressing defects in large scale property developments.
David’s experience includes:
- disputes over easements
- adverse possession
- retail leases
- fencing disputes
- building disputes
- owners corporation disputes.
He regularly represents clients in building litigation at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), Victorian Building Authority (VBA) and in the Magistrates Court, County Court and Supreme Court.
Property issues can affect almost anyone and David has helped a wide variety of clients including owners corporations, individuals and families, builders, developers, businesses and local councils.
David is the chair of the Owners Corporation Working Group and Deputy Chair of the Building and Construction Working Group. He is also the immediate past Section Chair of the Executive Committee of the Property and Environmental Law Section of the Law Institute of Victoria and the past chair of the Property Law Committee. David sits on the Contract of Sale Working Group which is responsible for maintaining the LIV Contract of Sale and the LIV Off The Plan Special Conditions.
He is a regular speaker for the Australian Institute of Conveyancers, Legalwise and Television Education Network and teaches at Leo Cussen Centre for Law.
His legal career followed successful careers as a physicist, a mathematician and in the IT industry that took him across the world.
