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Annex - Level 3 The Trust Building, 155 King Street Sydney NSW 2000AREAS OF PRACTICE
Employment and Industrial Law
Commercial Law
Administrative Law
Royal Commissions and Inquiries
QUALIFICATIONS
University of Sydney LLB
University of Sydney BA
ADMISSIONS
Senior Counsel - 2006 (NSW)
Appointed to NSW Bar - 1991
Admitted as an Australian Lawyer - 1985
PUBLICATIONS
The Modern Contract of Employment (2012)
The Modern Contract of Employment (second edition 2017)
The Reasonableness of Restraints: An Analysis of the Enforcement of Post-Employment Restraints
CASES
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BACKGROUND
Ian Neil unites the Bar’s traditional values of independent advice and persuasive advocacy with a modern approach to working collaboratively with solicitors and their clients in a national practice.
A silk since 2006, Ian works with leading law firms throughout Australia for clients in mining and resources, building and construction, banking and finance, industry, and government.
A focus of Ian’s practice is employment and industrial law.
He also appears frequently in commissions and inquiries, has a wide appellate, commercial, equity and administrative law practice in every jurisdiction in Australia, and appears in and conducts mediations and arbitrations in Australia, Hong Kong, and in the London Beth Din.
Ian is the author, with David Chin, of The Modern Contract of Employment, now the leading Australian text on the common law of employment. A second edition of this work was published in 2017.
Ian’s practice centres on written and oral advocacy. He teaches advocacy as a senior instructor with the Australian Advocacy Institute, and the Australian and NSW Bar Associations. He has been invited to teach advocacy throughout Australia, and in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Ian’s commitment to the Bar as a profession means that he teaches and mentors new barristers, serves on the NSW Bar Association’s Duty Barrister Scheme, and regularly takes pro bono work through the Public Interest Lawyer’s Clearing House.
For further information please refer to Ian's website.