Albert Dinelli KC

About Albert

Albert has a broad commercial and public law practice.

He has appeared in the High Court of Australia in a number of commercial, constitutional, administrative and criminal law matters, and has appeared in numerous cases in intermediate appellate courts. His most substantial experience is in commercial trials in the Supreme and Federal Courts. In 2018, he was appointed by the Commonwealth Attorney-General as one of the Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.

Albert has also been called to the Bar of England and Wales, and is a member of chambers at Twenty Essex, a leading international law and arbitration set.

Before coming to the Bar, Albert was Associate to the Honourable Murray Gleeson AC, the then Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. Prior to that, he practised as a solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) in the dispute resolution group.

He holds a D.Phil in Law from the University of Oxford.

Cases

High Court of Australia

Intermediate appellate courts

Federal Court of Australia

Supreme Courts

Other Fora

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Qualifications

D.Phil, BCL (Oxon), LLB (Hons), BA (Hons)

Albert completed his D.Phil and BCL at the University of Oxford, having earlier graduated from Monash University with first class honours in his undergraduate Law degree.

Memberships & Associations

Member of the Bar of England and Wales (Inner Temple)
Member of Twenty Essex Chambers in London and Singapore
Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Law School, where he teaches subjects in constitutional law and international commercial litigation

Publications

From 2013-2021, a reporter for the Commonwealth Law Reports.
“Proper law” and “Freezing injunctions and search orders” in Encyclopaedia of European Private International Law (Elgar, 2018) (co-authored with Alexander Layton QC)
“The Limits on the Remedy of Damages for Breach of Jurisdiction Agreements: The Law of Contract Meets Private International Law” (2015) 38 University of Melbourne Law Journal 1023. Click here to view this paper
Handy Hints on Legal Practice (3rd ed, Thomson Reuters, 2004) (co-authored with the Honourable Justice Emilios Kyrou and his Honour Gordon Lewis)

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