Mark has 30 years’ experience in civil law, with a particular focus on tort, contract and insurance law and vocational regulation.Mark appears as counsel in the District and Supreme Courts of Western Australia, the State Administrative Tribunal and the Coroner’s Court of Western Australia. He also appears in the Western Australia Court of Appeal and the High Court of Australia, as well as in other courts, tribunals, boards and government inquiries.Mark has acted in some of Western Australia’s most significant insurance and tort cases, including Zurich Australian Insurance v Metals & Minerals Insurance and Newcrest Mining v Thornton in the High Court of Australia and Speno Rail Maintenance Australia v Hamersley Iron, Barr v Farrell and AME Hospitals v Dixon in the Western Australia Court of Appeal. Mark advised the successful party to a House of Lords appeal arising from the Piper Alpha disaster in the North Sea. He represented Allied World Assurance Company in The Cosmetic Institute class action in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He represented the reinsurer of a government instrumentality following a series of incidents that culminated in a catastrophic injury allegedly caused by inadequate adverse event surveillance under a state-wide vaccination initiative. He also represented an insurer in its COVID-19 business interruption claims across Australia.Mark holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours. He has been recognised by Chambers Asia Pacific as a leading individual in insurance and is listed in Doyle's Guide as a pre-eminent medical negligence lawyer. He is recognised consistently as one of Australia's leading insurance, medical malpractice and professional malpractice lawyers in the Best Lawyers annual report published by the Australian Financial Review. He was named Best Lawyers’ Lawyer of the Year (Perth) in Insurance in 2014 and Lawyer of the Year (Perth) in Professional Malpractice Litigation in 2020 and 2021.Mark's practice areas include:• Appeals• Class actions• Disciplinary proceedings• Inquests• Inquiries• Insurance• Medical negligence• Negligence• Professional negligence• Royal commissions• Vocational regulation