Sandro Goubran KC

Barrister
Sandro Goubran KC

About Sandro

Sandro practises in commercial and public law.

His practice comprises major litigation in the Federal and Supreme Courts involving complex contractual, banking, corporations, financial services, valuation, trade practices and property disputes.

Before joining the Victorian Bar, Sandro was a Senior Associate in the Commercial Disputes practice group of Minter Ellison. He was also an Associate to Justice Weinberg of the Federal Court of Australia (2003).

Please click here for Sandro’s curriculum vitae and a list of his recent matters.

*Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation

Qualifications

  • BCom, LLB (Monash)
  • LLM (Dist) (Glasgow)

Sandro holds an LLM (Dist.) 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).

Memberships & Associations

  • Supreme Court – Commercial Court Users’ Group
  • Supreme Court – The Victorian Compensation and Planning Users’ Group

Publications

  • Was a reporter for the Federal Court Reports and the Federal Law Reports (2002 to 2004)
  • Seminars presented to various audiences in 2017 and 2018 on: (a) cross-examination; and (b) land acquisition, valuation and tax
  • Conflicts of Duty: The Perennial Lawyers’ Tale
  • Eagle or Ostrich: The Application of the Geneva Convention in the Jurisprudence of the US Supreme Court’ (2005) 31 Monash University Law Review 64

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