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News

May 2025

Kirk Dailly, a long-standing member of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers, has been appointed a Magistrate of the Local Court. His appointment commenced on 26 May 2025.

Kirk Dailly has practised as a Barrister on Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers for over 20 years and previously worked as a Senior Police Prosecutor.

 

January 2025

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers are listed in Doyle's Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2025.

 

Vance Hughston SC - Preeminent Market Leader

Tina Jowett SC - Recommended Senior Counsel

Charles Gregory - Recommended Junior Counsel

John Waters SC - Recommended Senior Counsel (Retired)

 

For more information, please click here.

 

February 2024

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers are listed in Doyle's Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2024.

For more information, please click here.

 

October 2023

On October 24 2023, the Chief Justice of Western Australia, the Hon Justice Peter Quinlan, announced the appointment of six Senior Counsel for 2023, following a rigorous selection process that received 27 applications.

 

Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers is delighted to announce that our very own Tina Jowett SC, who currently practices from Francis Burt Chambers and Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers, has been appointed Senior Counsel.

 

This recognition is truly well-deserved. Congratulations Tina on this remarkable achievement!

 

The full list of appointments in WA for 2023 can be found here.

 

February 2023

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers are listed in Doyle's Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2023.

For more information please click here.

 

February 2022

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers are listed in Doyle's Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2022.

For more information please click here.

 
October 2021

On 1 October 2021, the New South Wales Bar Association announced the names of 20 barristers who were appointed Senior Counsel.

 

Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers is delighted to announce that our very own John Waters SC has been appointed Senior Counsel in NSW.

 

Congratulations! A well-deserved achievement.

 

The full list of appointments in NSW for 2021 can be found here. 

 
February 2021

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers are listed in Doyle's Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2021.

For more information please click here.

 
February 2020

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers are listed in Doyle's Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2020.

For more information please click here.

 
May 2019
  • Tina Jowett contributed an article to the Native Title News: Jowett, T., Pate v Queensland (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2019) Native Title News, vol. 13, no. 3, May 2019, p 59.

 
February 2019

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers are listed in Doyle's Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2019.

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  • Jennifer Stuckey-Clarke had an article published in Trust & Trustees: “Report from International Trust litigation Committee: Investec Trust (Guernsey) Ltd v. Glenella Properties Ltd [2018] UKPC 7 – trustees’ liability to third parties”, Trusts & Trustees, Vol. 25, Issue 1, 1.2.2019, Pages 156-159. To view the article click here. 

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  • Craig Lambert was counsel for the respondent in Liu v Stephen Grubits and Associates (No 2) [2018] FCCA 842. The recent decision of the Full Federal Court of Australia determining that the Federal Circuit Court of Australia does in fact possess jurisdiction to award costs against vexatious litigants or where an unreasonable act or omission has caused the other party to incur costs which had previously been in question.  To read the decision click here.

 
January 2019
  • Vance Hughston SC contributed an article to the Native Title News: Hughston SC, V., Briefing barristers in native title claims (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2019) Native Title News, vol. 13, no. 2, January 2019, p 28.

 

October 2018
  • Craig Lambert presented a paper for The City of Sydney Law Society Lecture Series in October 2018: Does A Judgment Debt for Moneys Obtained by Fraud Survive Bankruptcy. To view the paper click here.
September 2018
  • Charles Gregory co-authored an article in the NSW Bar Association's Bar News: Robertson, D and Gregory, C, Admissibility of expert evidence [2018] (Spring) Bar News 82.
July 2018
  • Jennifer Stuckey-Clarke had an article published in the Conveyancing section of Australian Law Journal: Jennifer Stuckey-Clarke, 'The Age of Entitlement: Family Provision Claims by Adult Children' (2018) 92 (No.5) Australian Law Journal 328.
June 2018
  • Jennifer Stuckey-Clarke presented a paper for the City of Sydney Law Society CPD seminar on 14 June 2018: The Age of Entitlement: Family Provision Claims by Adult Children.
  • Vance Hughston SC and Tina Jowett co-presented with Margaret Read and Judith Coppin from the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation at the National Native Title Conference 2018 on 6 June 2018: David and Goliath: The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation vs. Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group. To view the program click here.
  • Tina Jowett contributed an article to the Native Title News: Jowett, T., Edwards, J., Sandy v Yindjibardi Aboriginal Corp RNTBC [No 4] (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2018) Native Title News, vol. 12, no. 10, June 2018, p 532.
May 2018
  • Vance Hughston SC and Tina Jowett co-authored an article in the NSW Bar Association's Bar News: Hughston SC, V and Jowett, T, 'Native title compensation claims' [2018] (Autumn) Bar News 52. Link to the Bar News: click here.
  • Charles Gregory reviewed a book for the NSW Bar Association's Bar News: N.P Stoianoff (ed), Indigenous Knowledge Forum - Comparative Systems for Recognising and Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Culture [2018] (Autumn) Bar News 90.  Link to the Bar News: click here.
April 2018
  • Attorney General Mark Speakman announced the appointment of Andrew Miller as a magistrate of the Local Court of NSW on 11 April 2018 to be sworn-in on 23 April 2018. To view the Attorney General's media release click here.
  • Vance Hughston SC authored a chapter in the recently released 'Australian Native Title Second Edition' text book.  Vance Hughston, 'Chapter 4: Proof of Native Title' in Melissa Perry and Stephen Lloyd (eds), Australian Native Title Second Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2018). For more information click here.
March 2018
  • Jennifer Stuckey-Clarke presented a paper for the NSW Bar Association's Orange CPD Conference on 17 March 2018: The Age of Entitlement: Family Provision Claims by Adult Children. To view the program click here.
February 2018

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers are listed in Doyles Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2018.

  • Vance Hughston SC - Market Leader
  • John Waters - Preeminent Junior Counsel
  • Tina Jowett - Leading Junior Counsel
  • Charles Gregory - Recommended Junior Counsel

For more information please click here.

 

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  • Charles Gregory presented a paper for the NSW Bar Association's North Coast CPD Conference on 17 February 2018: Aboriginal freehold and native title in NSW. To view the program click here.
  • Vance Hughston SC and Tina Jowett presented two CPD workshops for the Native Title Representative Body Legal Workshop 2018 on Thursday 22 February 2018: The Yindjibarndi litigation, and Risk managing privilege and discovery. To view the progam click here.
  • Tina Jowett presented a paper for the NSW Bar Association's Parramatta CPD Conference on 24 February 2018: Unqualified persons endeavouring to engage in Legal Practice - can they be stopped? To view the program click here.
January 2018
  • Charles Gregory contributed an article to the Native Title News: Gregory, C., Sandy (on behalf of the Yagara People) v Queensland (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2017) Native Title News, vol. 12, no. 8, December 2017, p 488.
December 2017
  • Jennifer Stuckey-Clarke was elected Vice President, Western Pacific by the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. For more information on The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law click here.
November 2017
  • Vance Hughston SC and Tina Jowett presented a CPD seminar for the NSW Bar Association on Wednesday 22 November 2017: David and Goliath: A talk on the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation v Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group. Link to brochure: click here.
October 2017
  • Craig Lambert presented a paper for The City of Sydney Law Society Lecture Series in October 2017: Circumstances that may constitute the surrender of a lease by operation of the law. To view the paper click here.
September 2017
  • Tina Jowett contributed an article to the Native Title News: Jowett, T., Costs in native title proceedings: the ability of an applicant to recover costs when represented by a representative body (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2017) Native Title News, vol. 12, no. 7, September 2017, p 447.
February 2017
  • Tina Jowett presented a paper for the NSW Bar Association's Newcastle CPD Conference on 25 February 2017: Self Represented Litigants and Conduct in Court. 
  • Tina Jowett presented a paper at the Centre for Native Title Anthropology annual conference on 10 February 2017: The role of anthrolopoligists in compensation claims, extract - s.51 of the NTA. For more information please click here.
  • Vance Hughston was a speaker at the Centre for Native Title Anthropology annual conference reception '25 Years of Native Title Anthropology' on 10 February 2017: Anthropological evidence: addressing the issues in dispute. To view the program please click here.
 January 2017

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers listed in Doyles Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2017.

  • Vance Hughston SC - Preeminent Senior Counsel
  • John Waters - Preeminent Junior Counsel
  • Tina Jowett - Leading Junior Counsel
  • Charles Gregory - Recommended Junior Counsel

For more information please click here.

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  • John Waters contributed an article to the Native Title News: Waters, J., Lake Torrens Overlap proceedings (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2017) Native Title News, vol. 12, no. 4, January 2017, p 386.
  • Tina Jowett contributed an article to the Native Title News: Jowett, T., Special leave application to the High Court in the Ngadju extinguishment case refused (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2017) Native Title News, vol. 12, no. 4, January 2017, p 389.
December 2016
  • Ali Cheema reviewed a book for the NSW Bar Association's Bar News: Moens, G, and Trone, J (eds) The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2016) [2016] (Summer) Bar News 72.  Link to the review: click here.
 
September 2016
  • Tina Jowett and Charles Gregory co-presented a paper at the Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, NSW Native Title Forum: Jurisprudence update - offshore connection, exclusive possession, and section 47B.
  • Charles Gregory reviewed a book for the NSW Bar Association's Bar News: Ananian-Welsh, R and Crowe, J (eds) Judicial Independence in Australia: Contemporary Challenges, Future Directions (Federation Press, 2016) [2016] (Spring) Bar News 74.  Link to the review: click here.
  • Tina Jowett contributed an article to the Native Title News: Jowett, T., Recent developments relating to s86 of the Native Title Act, (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2016) Native Title News, vol. 12, no. 3, September 2016, p 337.
 
June 2016
  • Charles Gregory presented a paper at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies (AIATSIS) National Native Title Conference, held in Darwin: ILUAs and Section 199C.  For more information or to view the transcript please click here.
  • Tina Jowett contributed an article to the Native Title News: Jowett, T., Case note - TJ Obh of Yindjibarndi People v Western Australia (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2016) Native Title News, vol. 12, no. 2, June 2016, p 324.
  • Charles Gregory reviewed a book for the NSW Bar Association's Bar News: Connolly A.J and Stewart D (eds), Public Law in the Age of Statutes: Essays in Honour of Dennis Pearce (Federation Press, 2015) [2016] (Winter) Bar News 60.  Link to the review: click here.
 
January 2016

Four members of Sixth Floor Windeyer Chambers listed in Doyles Guide, Leading Native Title Barristers - Australia 2016.

  • Vance Hughston SC - Leading Senior Counsel
  • John Waters - Leading Junior Counsel
  • Tina Jowett - Leading Junior Counsel
  • Charles Gregory - Recommended Junior Counsel

For more information please click here.