7 Wentworth Selborne 7th Floor, 180 Phillip Street SYDNEY NSW 2000 T: + 612 8224 3042 F: +612 9221 5386 E: [email protected] DX: DX 700 SYDNEY STEPHEN D PUTTICK

ADMISSIONS

2021 Barrister at the New South Wales Bar

2020 Register of Practitioners of the High Court of

2019 Lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

May 2021 – current Barrister – 7 Wentworth Selborne

February 2021 – April 2021 Lawyer – Clayton Utz

In the matter of Pages Equipment Holdings Pty Ltd NSWSC Proceeding 2020/205722

Boros v Pages Property Investment Pty Ltd NSWCA Proceeding 2020/00294167

Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Commonwealth Bank of Australia FCA Proceeding QUD96/2021

Biodiversity Sub TC Pty Ltd as Trustee of Biodiversity Sub Trust v Vaughan Constructions Pty Ltd VSC Proceeding 2020/00884

In the matter of Phoenix Institute of Australia Pty Ltd (In Liquidation) FCA Proceeding NSD1256/2020

In the matter of OneSteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd NSWSC Proceeding 2021/94381

January 2020 – January 2021 Researcher to the Equity Division under Justice J K Ward Chief Judge in Equity and Judge of Appeal – Supreme Court of New South Wales

November 2018 – January 2020 Lawyer (formerly Graduate at Law and Summer Clerk) – Clayton Utz

DSHE Holdings Limited (Receivers and Managers Appointed) (in Liquidation) v Abboud NSWSC Proceeding 2017/81927

Findlay v DSHE Holdings Limited (Receivers and Managers Appointed) (in Liquidation) NSWSC Proceeding 2017/294069

Mastoris v DSHE Limited (Receivers and Managers Appointed) (in Liquidation) NSWSC Proceeding 2018/52431

Australian Insolvency Group Pty Limited v LCM Litigation Investment Fund No 1 Pty Ltd NSWSC Proceeding 2016/90011

February 2016 – March 2017 Research Officer – Department of the Premier and Cabinet of

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

July 2020 – current Sessional Academic – Sydney Law School, The University of Sydney

November 2018 – current Adjunct Research Fellow – UWA Law School, The University of Western Australia

July 2019 – February 2021 Sessional Academic – Law Extension Committee, The University of Sydney

September 2019 – November 2019 Research Assistant – Centre for Law, Markets & Regulation, UNSW Law and School of Taxation & Business Law, UNSW Business School – The University of New South Wales

February 2019 – March 2019 Sessional Lecturer – UWA Law School, The University of Western Australia

May 2017 – February 2019 Research Assistant – UWA Law School, The University of Western Australia

April 2018 – November 2018 Academic Tutor – School of Indigenous Studies, The University of Western Australia

July 2017 – November 2018 Sessional Tutor – UWA Law School, The University of Western Australia

OTHER EXPERIENCE, APPOINTMENTS, AND INVOLVEMENT

May 2021 — current Member — New South Wales Bar Association

August 2020 — current Member — Competition Law Discussion Group

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November 2019 – current Reporter – New South Wales Law Reports, Council of Law Reporting for New South Wales

March 2020 –March 2021 Reporter – Federal Law Reports, Thomson Reuters

October 2018 – June 2019 Drafter – New South Wales Law Reports Catchwords Project, Council of Law Reporting for New South Wales

September 2016 – March 2018 Member – Human Research Ethics Committee, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

May 2016 – November 2017 Paralegal – Mental Health Law Centre (WA) Inc

EDUCATION

July 2020 – current Doctor of Philosophy – The University of Sydney

Thesis title: ‘A Model of Equitable Estoppel in Theory and Practice’

Supervision: Professor Greg Tolhurst FAAL (previously Professor Elisabeth Peden SC FAAL) and the Hon Adjunct Professor Joseph Campbell QC FAAL (formerly a Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Judge of Appeal)

Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset Scholarship (2020); Walter Reid Memorial Fund (2020)

2018 Juris Doctor – The University of Western Australia

2nd in graduating year (2018); Dean’s List (Academic Excellence and Research by Invitation) for class rank at graduation and Advanced Legal Research (by Invitation) (2018); UWA Law School Valedictorian for outstanding academic performance and contribution to the University (2018)

King & Wood Mallesons Prize in Law for best performance in Advanced Legal Research (by Invitation) (2018); David Howe Memorial Prize for Procedure and Ethics (2018); Second place in Evidence (2018); Second place in Commercial Practice (2018); Semi-Finalist, Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot (Regional Rounds) (2018); Third place in Supervised Research (2017); Richard McCormack Prize in Equity and Trusts (2017); Student Editor, University of Western Australia Law Review (2017); National Finalist, Sir Anthony Mason Constitutional Law Essay Competition (2016); Winner, Inter-Varsity AMPLA Mining Law Moot (2016); Best Oralist, Inter-Varsity AMPLA Mining Law Moot (2016); Prize in Legal Process (2015)

July 2015 Law Summer School – The London School of Economics and Political Science

2014 Bachelor of Arts – The University of Western Australia

Economics and Political Science & International Relations

Mannkal Economic Education Foundation Scholarship (2013); National Winner, The GE Challenge (2013); Dean’s commendation for equal highest result in Australian Employment Relations (2011)

BOOKS

Current Issues in Competition Law: Practice and Perspectives (The Federation Press, 2021) (forthcoming) (edited with Michael Gvozdenovic)

Current Issues in Competition Law: Context and Interpretation (The Federation Press, 2021) (forthcoming) (edited with Michael Gvozdenovic)

BOOK CHAPTERS AND PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

‘Book Review: Australian Contract Law in 21st Century edited by John Eldridge and Timothy Pilkington (The Federation Press, 2020)’ (2021) Australian Bar Review (forthcoming)

'Willpower Has No Voltage: Problems with Causation in Equitable Estoppel' (2021) University of Western Australia Law Review (forthcoming) (with Hon Justice J K Ward FAAL)

‘Before the High Court: Three Remedial Responses to Tortious Damage: Arsalan v Rixon; Nguyen v Cassim' (2021) Sydney Law Review (forthcoming) (with Dr David Winterton)

‘Perspectives on Part IV’ in Michael Gvozdenovic and Stephen Puttick (eds), Current Issues in Competition Law: Practice and Perspectives (The Federation Press, 2021) (forthcoming) (with Michael Gvozdenovic)

‘Competition Law at the Limit of Common Law and Statute’ in Michael Gvozdenovic and Stephen Puttick (eds), Current Issues in Competition Law: Context and Interpretation (The Federation Press, 2021) (forthcoming)

‘Economic and Historical Prisms of Competition Law’ in Michael Gvozdenovic and Stephen Puttick (eds), Current Issues in Competition Law: Context and Interpretation (The Federation Press, 2021) (forthcoming) (with Michael Gvozdenovic)

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‘‘“It’s Happening Slow, But It’s Certainly Happening”: LGBTQI+ Law Student Perceptions of Diversity in the Legal Profession’ (2021) Alternative Law Journal (forthcoming) (with Aidan Ricciardo, Dr Shane Rogers, Professor Natalie Skead FAAL, Associate Professor Stella Tarrant, and Melville Thomas)

‘Book Review: Statutory Interpretation in Private Law edited by Prue Vines and M Scott Donald (The Federation Press, 2019)’ (2021) 94(3) Australian Law Journal 227

‘Dimensions of Loss in Negligence: Lee v Strelnicks’ (2020) 26(3) Torts Law Journal 244

‘Book Review: The Law of Proprietary Estoppel by Ben McFarlane (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed, 2020)’ (2021) 137 (January) Law Quarterly Review 178

‘Undertakings in Merger Proceedings Following Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Pacific National Pty Ltd [2020[ FCAFC: Has the Train Left the Station?’ (2020) 28(4) Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law 286 (with Michael Gvozdenovic)

‘Full Steam Ahead or Gone off the Rails? Merger Analysis After Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Pacific National Pty Ltd [2020] FCAFC’ (2020) 28(3) Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law 219 (with Michael Gvozdenovic)

‘Book Review: The Coherence of Statutory Interpretation edited by Jeffrey Barnes (The Federation Press, 2019)’ (2020) 94(8) Australian Law Journal 643

‘Review Essay: On Property in Equity’ (2020) 42(2) Sydney Law Review 241

‘Book Review: Form and Substance in the Law of Obligations edited by Andrew Robertson and James Goudkamp (Hart Bloomsbury, 2019)’ (2020) 136 (July) Law Quarterly Review 508

'Reconsidering Independent Advice: A Framework for Analysing Two-Party and Three-Party Cases' (2020) 43(1) University of New South Wales Law Journal 218 (with Dr Felicity Maher)

‘Book Review: Sir Owen Dixon’s Legacy edited by John Eldridge and Timothy Pilkington (The Federation Press, 2019)’ (2019) 45(3) Monash University Law Review 186

‘Mergers, Competitors, and Perceptions: Some Trains of Thought on Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Pacific National Pty Ltd (No 2) [2019] FCA 669’ (2019) 27(4) Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law 294 (with Michael Gvozdenovic)

‘Fish Oil Capsule Producer Caught Outside the Safe Harbour: A Note on Nature's Care Manufacture Pty Ltd v Australian Made Campaign Limited [2018] FCA 1936’ (2019) 27(2) Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law 134

‘Developments in Public Policy Challenges to Enforcing Foreign Awards in Mainland China’ (2018) 46(1–2) Australian Bar Review 170 (with Kanaga Dharmananda SC) SSSSSSS ‘The Executive and the External Affairs Power: Does the Executive’s Prerogative Power to Vary Treaty Obligations Qualify Parliamentary Supremacy?’ (2018) 43(2) University of Western Australia Law Review 286 (with Zaccary Molloy Mencshelyi and Dr Murray Wesson)

‘All-Embracing Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation and “Moderate Originalism”’ (2017) 42(1) University of Western Australia Law Review 30 (an earlier version of this paper was selected as a national finalist submission in the 2016 Sir Anthony Mason Constitutional Law Essay Competition)

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND OTHER WORK

‘Diversity in Australian Law Schools: an Empirical Survey on the Experience of LGBTQI+ Students’ (Paper to be presented at Australasian Law Academics Association Conference, July 2021, Sydney) (with Professor Natalie Skead FAAL)

‘Understanding Diversity in Legal Education and the Profession: the Experience of LGBTQI+ Law Students’ (Final Report, October 2020) (with Aidan Ricciardo, Dr Shane Rogers, Professor Natalie Skead FAAL, Associate Professor Stella Tarrant, and Melville Thomas)

‘The Thread of Promissory Estoppel’ (Paper presented at Melbourne Law School Obligations Group Annual Conference, 5 December 2019, Melbourne)

RESEARCH GRANTS AND PROJECTS

Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law Grant, ‘Current Issues in Competition Law’ (2021) (with Michael Gvozdenovic)

Law Society of Western Australia Public Purposes Trust Annual Grant, ‘Understanding, Promoting, and Supporting Diversity in Legal Education and the Profession’ (2019 – 2020) (with Professor Natalie Skead FAAL, Associate Professor Stella Tarrant, Dr Shane Rogers, Melville Thomas, and Aidan Ricciardo)

OTHER AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Nomination for ‘Award for Teaching Excellence – Individual’, The University of Western Australia (2019)

May 2021

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