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Dion Fahey

Dion Fahey

Work Department

List G Barristers

Career

Given Dion’s accounting background, he has particular proficiency in accounting and financial matters. Dion also has significant expertise in trade practices, tort, equity, and restitution.

Dion has appeared in the High Court of Australia, Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, Victorian Court of Appeal, NSW Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Court of Victoria, and the Supreme Court of New South Wales, in a range of commercial and corporate matters. These matters include class actions (including securities, mass tort and consumer class actions), misleading or deceptive conduct claims, professional negligence claims, prevention of a reverse takeover, injunction applications, freezing order applications, oppression claims, breaches of fiduciary duty claims, and contract and trust claims. Dion has experience, among other things, examining, cross-examining and re-examining witnesses in superior courts.

Prior to joining the Bar, Dion was a Senior Associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group at Herbert Smith Freehills. While at the firm, Dion worked exclusively in litigation and dispute resolution and was involved in many large scale and high-profile disputes including class actions, international litigation and international arbitration.

Please see below for Dion’s recent cases.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under the Professional Standards Legislation

Education

Master of Laws (Melb)

Bachelor of Laws (Hons)(Melb)

Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting)(Melb)

Mentions

Australia Bar

Commercial disputes

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Dion Fahey – List G Barristers ‘Dion is super smart, hard working, knowledgeable across all areas of class action work and on the rise. He has appeared in a diverse range of interlocutory issues in three high profile class actions over the last year on which he has led the full spread of the work for the barristers’ team including the advocacy – and against leading silks instructed by the banks. Dion has more than held his own. His written work is outstanding and has the distillation and focus of the best barristers.’