David Burton

David Burton practised as a Barrister at the Cape Town Bar in civil and criminal litigation during the height of the turbulent apartheid years in South Africa before emigrating to Perth in 1986.

He became an insurance partner at the national insurance law firm, Phillips Fox, for 10 years, where he developed a substantial personal injury defendant insurance practice.

David then became a founding partner of the boutique specialist insurance law firm, Srdarov Richards Burton in 1999, then rebadged SRB Legal. On 1 July 2020 SRB Legal joined and became part of a national law firm, McCabes.

David is also a highly experienced mediator, having settled 100s of personal injury claims for insurers and self-insureds, but is also an experienced Trial Counsel. For the past 30 years, he has successfully appeared as Counsel in defending claims on behalf of various insurance clients and in particular the Insurance Commission of Western Australia, in the High Court, Appeal Court, Supreme Court, District Court as well as the WorkCover Tribunal.

David is a well regarded leading practitioner in personal injury, CTP and catastrophic injury claims in Western Australia.
He has consistently been recognised by his peers, as a pre-eminent personal injury defendant lawyer in his field in the Doyle Guide rankings from 2016 to date.

Outside of the law, David is an avid reader, Rugby Union tragic and passionate surfer. He loves the waves in the Yallingup area, and travelling with his wife to tropical surf locations, where the water is warm, the sharks are small and vegetarian.