About

A well-known and highly regarded member of Australia’s in-house legal community, Tig Pocock is firmly established as a thought leader in his industry. ‘He’s a pretty exceptional in-house lawyer’, says one in-house lawyer. ‘He’s just very much bang on – he knows the business, the issues, the risks – he comes across as a very confident, experienced, well respected in-house lawyer’. Pocock acted as key representative on behalf of the coal industry in the development of a new regulatory regime for Queensland’s overlapping coal and coal seam gas tenures in. Devised through collaboration between industry representatives and the state government, the final model shaped resultant legislation. ‘It will represent a major change to how the state’s two biggest industries interact’, Pocock says. ‘It should drive much more efficient and collaborative outcomes, to the benefit of all Queenslanders’. He also represented the mining industry in the government review of portable long-term leave in the construction industry. The detailed legislative reform which followed will, in Pocock’s view, ‘save the resources sector millions of dollars annually’. He was also involved in the consolidation of the Queensland Resources Acts, and has worked with BHP’s corporate affairs team on a broad range of other regulatory reform issues. He is an active member of the Queensland Law Society’s mining & resources committee and has an informal networking group of lawyers within the mining sector. Pocock previously practised at Corrs Chambers Westgarth and worked at in-house at Cape York Land Council. The author of well received article on the work of in-house counsel, Pocock has previously worked as a freelance travel writer in Malaysia.