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Sandro practises mainly in commercial and public law.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Sandro was a Senior Associate in the Commercial Disputes practice group of Minter Ellison. His practice comprised major litigation in the Federal and Supreme Courts involving complex contractual, banking, employment, trade practices and property disputes.
Sandro was an Associate to Justice Weinberg of the Federal Court of Australia (2003) and a reporter for the Federal Court Reports and the Federal Law Reports (2002 to 2004).
Sandro holds an LLM from the University of Glasgow where he studied as a Scots Australian Council Scholar. He graduated first of his year. As an undergraduate at Monash University, he was awarded the Sir Charles Lowe prize (2000) and best speaker in the Jessup (1999). He was also a research intern at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in Vienna, Austria (2001).
As an instructing solicitor, Sandro was involved in the following matters:
- Alto Artarmon Pty Ltd v BMW Australia Ltd [2007] NSWIRComm 172 which considered the jurisdiction of the Industrial Court of NSW under the Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW);
- Adelaide Brighton Cement Ltd v Wong [2008] FCA 496 which considered an application for summary judgment in relation to section 51(2)(b) of the Trade Practices Act (Part IV);
- Equity Trustees v White & Ors [2006] VSC 509 which considered the powers of an executor/trustee;
- Chacmol Holdings Pty Ltd v Handberg (2005) 215 ALR 748 which considered the validity of an 'all moneys' clause in a fixed and floating charge;
- Port of Melbourne Corporation v Melbourne City Council (2004) 133 LGERA which considered complex land valuation and tax issues.
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