Brad was admitted to practice law in South Australia in 2003.
Brad has substantial legal and management experience within the South Australian Government. He has served as the Chief Legal Advisor to SafeWork SA and the Director of Legal Services in the Department for Child Protection, as well as practising for nearly 10 years in the Crown Solicitors Office.
Brad is experienced in matters of public law, administrative law, child protection law, industrial (employment) law, criminal law, complex statutory investigations, and regulatory prosecutions.
He is a particularly experienced Work Health and Safety (WHS) advocate, who has had conduct of trials and appeals in WHS matters as counsel for the Crown, and he has also represented the Crown in other employment related matters.
Brad has acted as counsel for the Crown in various regulatory prosecutions or disciplinary matters, having represented Consumer and Business Services, Return to Work SA, Fisheries SA, Biosecurity SA, and other regulators in performing their statutory functions.
He has significant experience in the conduct of appellate work, having also represented the Crown in appeals from the Magistrates Court to the Supreme Court, along with appeals from Industrial Magistrates to the Industrial Court.
Brad has assisted a number of complex statutory investigations, including the Debelle Royal Commission (2013), and the MacPherson Burnside Council inquiry (2010).
More recently, as the Director of Legal Services, Brad established and led the legal directorate of the new Department for Child Protection following the Nyland Royal Commission in 2016. He oversaw the development, passage and implementation of landmark new child protection legislation in 2018, and served on the Department’s Senior Executive Group.
Brad is accepting briefs in matters relating to Public Law and Regulation, WHS law, Administrative law, Child Protection Law, Criminal Law and Industrial law.
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