Barnaby Austin
Senior Associate
Senior Associate
As a Senior Associate in the Employment, Workplace Relations & Safety team, Barnaby is an employment and industrial relations specialist. He enjoys forming strong working relationships with clients. Clients find him accessible and easy to get along with, with advice that is user friendly and commercially focused.
Barnaby's practice includes advising on all aspects of the day-to-day employment relationship, conducting workplace investigations over a variety of scenarios, supporting clients on employment issues in corporate transactions, and representing clients in resolving employment-related disputes. Barnaby additionally has extensive experience and a keen interest in industrial relations, with a focus on strategic outcomes-based solutions for clients.
Barnaby is admitted to the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia, he holds Bachelor of Business and Juris Doctor qualifications from the University of Technology, Sydney. Formerly a principal of a law practice, he has also completed the legal practice management course.
Case Note – Zaya v Damirdjian Judgment date: 11 October 2022 Citation: Zaya v Damirdjian [2022] NSWCA 203 Jurisdiction: Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of NSW Before: Bell CJ, Gleeson JA and Griffiths AJA Principles Expert evidence has a limited role to play in resolving liability issues in motor accident claims and will carry little […]
A claimant suffers psychological injury when he is threatened by a would be thief of his motor bike. Whether the medical assessor was justified in concluding that this was not a motor accident was answered by the Supreme Court in Bell v Allianz Insurance Australia Ltd. Judgment date: 18 August 2022 Citation: Bell v Allianz […]
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