David H. Denton S.C.

Michael Kirby Chambers
49 Davey Street
Hobart, Tasmania 7000

Chancery Chambers
Level 26
200 Queen Street
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000

Telephone: 03 8600 1777
Facsimile: 03 8600 1770

Email: denton@chancery.com.au

Admitted to Practice: 1982

Signed Bar Roll: 1987

Appointed Silk: 2001

Also Admitted in: NSW, QLD, SA

Biography:

David H Denton, S.C. practises in the commercial and appellate divisions of the Federal Court, the State Supreme Courts; the Planning & Environment Court of Queensland and in VCAT. He also practises and appears in the superior courts in Fiji.

He has a keen interest in commercial arbitration and in all aspects of company law, especially insolvency and shareholder disputes; planning and environmental torts.

He is a Certified Arbitrator and an experienced nationally accredited Mediator and holds or has held the following positions:
• President, Commercial Bar Association ;
• Adjunct Professor, Victoria Law School, Victoria University, Melbourne;
• President, Australian Institute for Commercial Arbitration Inc.;
• Chairman,‘Law Hawks’, In-House Legal Coterie, Hawthorn Football Club.

Areas of Practice:

• Commercial Arbitration & Mediation
• Commercial Law
• Corporations and Securities Law
• Planning - Environmental Torts
• Property Law
• Technology, Engineering & Construction Disputes