Lachlan
ARMSTRONG

• Class Actions/Representative Proceedings
• Commercial Law
• Competition, Market Conduct
• Contract Disputes
• Discrimination/Equal Opportunity
• Industrial and Employment Law
• Insurance (including Re-insurance)
• Professional Negligence
• Trade Practices, Consumer Protection

Lachlan has particular experience in complex representative proceedings or “class actions”, having advised or appeared in more than 30 class actions including shareholder and investor actions (including the GIO, Aristocrat, Media World, Harris Scarfe, Centro and Opes Prime actions), price-fixing (including the Vitamins, Air Cargo and Amcor/Visy Cardboard Box actions) and several industrial class actions.

Lachlan is author of the representative proceedings commentary in the Butterworths Federal Court Practice looseleaf, the class actions chapter of the Butterworths Federal Civil Litigation Precedents service and the equivalent chapter in the Butterworths Victorian Civil Litigation Precedents service. 

He has acted in successful applications to the ACCC for authorisations under Part VII of the Trade Practices Act, including the North East Winegrowers application determined in February 2008. 

Lachlan is a former Associate to Justice Murray Wilcox of the Federal Court of Australia.

• Author of the “representative proceeding” sections of Butterworths’ Federal Court Practice, Federal Civil Litigation Precedents and Victorian Forms and Precedents services.