Andy Hanna

Since coming to the Bar, Andy has had:

• experience in complex commercial disputes, including:
  1. trial experience (junioring Jonathon Moore KC and junior counsel in a breach of contract/misleading or deceptive conduct matter; junioring Nick Hopkins KC and Paul Liondas KC in a contractual earn-out payment dispute);
  2. pre-trial experience (junioring senior counsel and Louie Hawas in a cross-claim involving construction of contractual indemnities and a rectification claim; junioring Jonathon Moore KC in responding to an interlocutory application for an injunction in the context of a broader dispute involving a termination of a licence agreement);
• experience in class actions (junioring Michael Borsky KC and Caryn van Proctor in a class action dispute involving claims of unconscionable conduct that settled before trial);
• experience in complex insolvency proceedings (junioring senior counsel and junior counsel on behalf of KordaMentha as receivers and managers in a cross-claim involving a termination of a share and sale agreement by the receivers, including a strike-out of breach of contract and tort of inducing breach of contract claims);
• experience in appellate litigation (junioring Kanaga Dharmananda SC in a successful appeal before the Full Federal Court involving a permanent stay of proceedings by the Full Court and a successful response to a special leave application to the High Court).

Before coming to the Bar, Andy was a senior associate in the Commercial Litigation team at Corrs Chambers Westgarth and a solicitor at Allens and Herbert Smith Freehills.

Andy has a Bachelor of Civil Law with distinction from the University of Oxford. He studied on the Daniel Slifkin Scholarship from St John’s College, Oxford, and received the Law Faculty Prize for Comparative Public Law. From 2015 to 2016, Andy was an associate to the Hon Robert French AC, then Chief Justice of Australia.

Articles published

“Staging abuses: Secret Litigation Strategies and Stays: Madden (Receiver) v Mining Standards International Pty Ltd [2025] FCAFC 142”, (2026) 45 Civil Justice Quarterly 192

“The conundrum of the corporate client: deciphering the scope and application of legal professional privilege in the corporate context: Re RBS (Rights Issue Litigation) [2016] EWHC 3161 (Ch); Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian Natural Resources Corp” (2018) 37 Civil Justice Quarterly 172

“Nationhood Power and Judicial Review: A Bridge Too Far?” (2015) 39 UWA Law Review 327

*Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation