Hamish Donovan
Associate
Hamish Donovan is an associate in the Litigation Practice. He has strong advocacy skills, having appeared for clients and instructed counsel on a wide range of matters in multiple courts.
Hamish has worked with clients from a variety of industries and sectors on a range of matters relating to commercial disputes, consumer and competition law, intellectual property and regulatory investigations and prosecutions.
- Defending a manufacturer in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia against charges laid under the Environmental Protection Act.
- Assisting a manufacturing company negotiate amendments to its environmental licence and application for works approvals.
- Advising an entertainment industry company in a dispute regarding passing off and misleading or deceptive conduct under the Australian Consumer Law.
- Advising a manufacturing company on compliance with a product recall notice.
- Acting for a manufacturing company in the District Court of Western Australia in relation to a leasing dispute.
- Advising an international sporting body in relation to a dispute over intellectual property rights in an international sporting event.
- Advising an international company on options to commence proceedings against directors of the Australian parent company in a dispute with a foreign subsidiary.
- Advising and acting for a company in responding to a request for pre-action discovery in a dispute relating to international mining tenements.
- Advising a property development company over a contractual dispute in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
- Advising on defamation matters and preparing concerns notices.
- Advising international companies in relation to Australian labelling requirements and misleading and deceptive conduct.
- Advising a foreign company on a contractual dispute in proceedings in the District Court of Queensland.
- Assisting with advising a marine pilotage company on the construction of a trust deed to determine if a former employee was entitled to certain payments after leaving the business, in proceedings in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
- Assisting with advising a medical supplies business on unconscionable conduct provisions under the Australian Consumer Law relating to a debt recovery dispute arising from the supply of PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic, in proceedings in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
- Assisting a marine pilotage company in seeking urgent restraint of trade injunctions in the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
- Advising a creditor on and successfully making an application to wind up three companies on just and equitable grounds.
- Advising on whistleblower protections, procedures and investigations.
- Advising a sporting industry regulator on the scope of its powers and its compliance obligations under applicable legislation.
- Advising sporting industry clients in relation to compliance with obligations under gaming and wagering legislation.
- Advising a sporting industry regulator in relation to the negotiation of a media rights deal.
Education
- College of Law, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, 2021
- University of Notre Dame Australia, LL.B., 2020
- University of Notre Dame Australia, B.A., (Politics and International Relations), 2020
Admissions
- Supreme Court of Western Australia, 2021