Romauld Andrew

Aickin Chambers
Room 3009
200 Queen Street,
Melbourne, Victoria 3000

c/o Clerk W
205 William Street,
Melbourne, Victoria 3000

DX 95 Melbourne

Telephone: 03 9225 7326
Facsimile: 03 9600 0320

Email: andrew@vicbar.com.au

Admitted to Practice: 1997

Signed Bar Roll: 1999

Also admitted in: High Court of Australia, entitled to practice in all Australian jurisdictions.

Biography:

Romauld Andrew graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Laws.  He was admitted to practice in Victoria in 1997 and has practiced in commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on construction and engineering disputes, ever since.

He has a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne (Minor Thesis: Top-Down Reasoning and the Judicial Process: the case of unjust enrichment and quantum meruit in Australian law).  He has published extensively on construction law and related topics including:

1.  ‘The Five Myths of Calderbank Offers’ in Law Institute Journal, August 2000
2. ‘Dispensing with the Holy Grail – Reliance in the High Court since Bryan v Maloney’ in Building Dispute Practitioners Society News, June 2001
3. ‘The Ill-Favoured Child of Litigation: International Commercial Arbitration and the Australian Trade Practices Act 1974’ in Journal of International Arbitration, June 2004
4. ‘Exceeding the limits of indemnity: Consequential damages and repudiation of insurance policies’ in Insurance Law Journal August 2005

He has appeared in complex cases in the Supreme Court of Victoria as well as in arbitrations, inferior courts and tribunals.    

Areas of Practice:

Romauld Andrew practices in all areas of commercial litigation, including insurance matters, and is available to accept briefs to draw pleadings and prepare complex court documents, as well as appear in interlocutory applications and trials.