Angus Macaskill Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Hawthorn East, Victoria, Australia

- Self-insured WorkCover role, managing the Victorian common law and statutory benefits claims across Coles Group businesses.- Instructing Coles Group's external WorkCover legal panel in their conduct of litigated claims and serious injury applications.- Assisting and advising the internal claims team with appropriate claim and dispute management..

Melbourne, Australia

• Providing advice and conducting litigation in the fields of professional indemnity, banking and finance insurance, torts and personal injury.Professional indemnity insurance
• Advice on indemnity and liability issues in respect of claims against land surveyors, engineers and lawyers.
• Conduct of litigation in the Supreme Court including pleadings, discovery and briefing expert witnesses.
• Clients have included Resource Underwriting Pacific Pty Ltd and the Legal Practitioners’ Liability Committee.Banking and finance insurance
• Research and advice in relation to indemnity disputes and class actions arising from failed investment schemes, including the collapse of the Great Southern agricultural investment scheme.
• Clients have included ANZcover Insurance Pty Ltd and Chartis Australia Insurance Limited.WorkCover

Wellington, New Zealand

• Drafting, checking and issuing contracts for up to NZ$500k of funding to Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) providing social services, together with checking and dealing with sign-off aspects of high-value contracts.
• Also took on additional duties of an advisory nature, which included redrafting and reworking contract templates used by CYF staff throughout New Zealand. This work involved close liaison with CYF’s Legal Department.
• Further additional duties included developing and implementing a new electronic filing and archiving system within the immediate team of approximately 8 people.

• Mar 09 – Aug 09: Restructuring and Insolvency Team, EdinburghAppointment of insolvency practitioners on behalf of large UK banks, and thereafter contractual drafting and legal research for the appointed insolvency.
• Sep 08 – Feb 09: Commercial Property Division, LondonDrafting and negotiating contracts for lease of commercial properties in the London area, on behalf of landlords.
• Mar 08 – Aug 08: Litigation Division, EdinburghDisputes arising from construction and property contracts, and from government regulation of utility companies.
• Aug 07 – Feb 08: Commercial Division, EdinburghApplications to acquire intellectual property rights, and giving advice in relation to contracts and government regulation, for a range of commercial clients and public.

Postgraduate Diploma In Legal Practice (Diplp)

Degree In Law With Honours (Llb Hons) - First Class

Education record