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Experience

Claire has a broad practice that includes class actions, general commercial law, public law and quasi-criminal law.

Before coming to the Bar, Claire was a Senior Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer working in class actions and general commercial disputes.

Claire also previously practised as a trial division solicitor at the Office of Public Prosecutions, and was an Associate to the Hon Justice Nettle AC at the High Court of Australia.

Claire holds a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours; University Medal in Law) from the University of Tasmania. She also holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (Dist) from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Rupert Cross Prize in Evidence.

Claire is an author of Zuckerman on Australian Civil Procedure: Principles of Practice (LexisNexis, 2023), and has lectured in Administrative Law, Tort Law and Remedies across the University of Melbourne JD and University of Tasmania LLB.

Claire is reading with Mark Hosking, and her senior mentor is Philip Solomon KC.