Description: Richard Lancaster SC is a barrister practising from the Fifth Floor, St James Hall, Sydney. Areas of practice are primarily: Administrative and constitutional law; Appellate; Commercial law; Competition and consumer law; Defamation; Environmental, local government and planning law; Equity, charities and trusts; Intellectual property.
He appears and advises in a broad range of regulatory and commercial disputes, including specialisation in the following areas of practice:
Richard has a broad practice in public law (including administrative law, judicial review and constitutional law) across State and Federal Courts. Some examples are set out here, for others please refer to the searchable index of cases below and also in the environmental law section below.
Richard has appeared in a large variety of commercial disputes, at trial and on appeal, in the Supreme Court of New Wales, the Federal Court of Australia and other jurisdictions. Some examples are: