Sandy Phipps

Call 2008 (England and Wales); 2005 (New South Wales, Solicitor)
B.C.L. (Oxon); L.L.B. (Hons 1st Class); B.A. (Hons 1st Class) (Australian National University).
Email: sphipps@3vb.com

Sandy Phipps has worked in the commercial litigation field in various roles since 2004.

Prior to coming to the Bar in 2009, he was a litigation solicitor at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney. His practice during this period included a secondment to the litigation department of Goldman Sachs.

He has also been a judicial assistant to the Commercial List of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. In the academic field he has published in areas including contract, jurisdiction and civil procedure.

 
His current practice reflects this broad commercial experience, with a particular focus on banking, financial services, and civil fraud. He is instructed both as sole advocate and as part of Counsel teams on larger-scale disputes.

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Publications

• Regular contributor to the ‘Case Analysis' section of the Butterworths Journal of International Banking & Financial Law. 
•  ‘Protecting the New Dawn for Alternative Assets: Lessens from Recent Financial Services Litigation' [2010] IFC Review (with Sonia Tolaney).
• Resurrecting the Doctrine of Common Law Forbearance' (2007) 123 Law Quarterly Review 286.
• 'Non-party compensation for wrongful interim injunctions: Smithkline Beecham plc v Apotex Europe Ltd [2006] EWCA Civ 685' (2007) 26 Civil Justice Quarterly 10.
• 'The Application of the ALI/UNIDROIT Principles and Rules of Transnational Civil Procedure to New South Wales' (2004) 4 Uniform Law Review 1 (with the Hon Justice C.R. Einstein, Supreme Court of New South Wales).
• 'Trends in International Commercial Litigation in Australia Part I - The Present State of Foreign Judgment Enforcement Law' (2005) 3 IPRax (with the Hon Justice C.R. Einstein).
• 'Trends in International Commercial Litigation in Australia Part II - The Future of Foreign Judgment Enforcement Law' (2005) 4 IPrax (with the Hon Justice C.R. Einstein).

Academic achievements

• 2006 - University of Oxford - Distinction, Bachelor of Civil Law
• 2005 - Chevening Oxford-Australia Fund Scholarship
• 2003 - Australian National University - University Medal in Law 
• 2003 - Australian National University - Attorney-General's Prize 
• 2003 - Australian National University - Marie Ayers Prize for Criminal Justice 
• 2002 - Australian National University - Harmers' Prize for Work and Law 
• 2001 - Australian National University - C.M. Williams Prize in History 
• 2000 - Australian National University - H.C. Coombs Honours Scholarship in Arts

Professional Affiliations

• Lincoln's Inn
• COMBAR