Emma Stephens Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Manus Island, Png

Sydney, Australia

Department Manager - Disaster Insurance.As Department Manager I led the team in a number of successful cases against insurance companies on behalf of business and home owners who had their claims denied following the 2011 Brisbane floods. I was also successful in professional negligence and misleading and deceptive conduct claims against insurance brokers for providing poor financial advice to business and home owners.Practice areas:-InsuranceProfessional NegligenceContract LawAustralian Consumer LawTorts

Sydney, Australia

Key achievements:Instructing solicitor for 157 Tamil asylum seekers detained on the high seas by the Australian Government in High Court proceedings CPCF -v- Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Anor [2015] HCA 1.Instructing solicitor in the Supreme Court of Nauru case of AG v Secretary for Justice [2013] NRSC 10, which was a constitutional challenge to the detention of asylum seekers sent to Nauru for offshore processing by the Gillard Government in 2013.Instructing solicitor for over 60 asylum seekers in successful judicial reviews of departmental complementary protection assessments.Assisted an asylum seeker who had an adverse security assessment from ASIO to make representations to ASIO, ultimately resulting in a positive security clearance and release from 6 years in immigration detention.Instructing solicitor for high profile clients, George Newhouse and Warren Mundine, in successful defamation proceedings against NewsCorp and Fairfax respectively.Practice areas:Administrative LawConstitutional LawDiscriminationCivil and political rightsAsylum seeker and refugee rightsIndigenous rights and equality Coronial InquiriesPublic interest advocacyDefamation

Preserve and protect the meaning of the Red Cross Emblem in international humanitarian law.

Trademark registration and infringementCopyright infringementMisleading and deceptive conductDesign registration and infringement Patent infringementTerms and conditions - websites and phone apps

Master Of Laws (Ll.M.) With Excellence, International Law

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb) And Bachelor Of Creative Industries (Media And Communication), First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Dean's scholar Golden Key Society

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