Phone: (02) 8239 3222
Fax: 0291019368
Email: cbirch@chambers.net.au
Year Of Admission: 1982
Appointed Senior Counsel: 1999
Areas Of Practice
- Appellate
- Administrative
- Commercial
- Constitutional
- Equity
- Trusts
- Wills and Probate
Qualifications
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BA (Hons)
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LLB (Hons)
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PhD (Syd)
Additional
- Adjunct Professor – University of Sydney
- Faculty of Law Lecturer – Law Extension Committee of New South Wales
- 2001-2005 Chairman of Council of Law Reporting for New South Wales
Papers and Publications
- An Oppression Remedy for Beneficiaries of a Trust? (2018)
- Recent Cases on Unpaid Distributions to Beneficiaries of Trusts (2016)
- Accountants v Trust Lawyers: Some Recent Cases in the Law of Trusts (2015)
- A Beneficiary’s Entitlement to obtain Information and to have an Executor or Trustee Removed (2014)
- Informal and Stop-Gap Wills (2013)
- Informal Wills and Solicitors’ Duties (2013)
- Strategies for Estate Litigation (2011)
- Death, Property & the Problem of Posthumous Harm (2011)
- Justifying Punishment in a Deterministic World (2008)
- Corrective Justice and the Paradox of Future Individuals (2004)
- The Connotation/Denotation Distinction in Constitutional Interpretation (2003)
- Memory and Punishment (2000)