Priscilla was admitted as a solicitor in NSW in 2009 and was inititally called to the NSW Bar in May 2011. She has over 15 years’ experience in complex commercial litigation and dispute resolution, with specialist knowledge and expertise in intellectual property law, particularly in the areas of copyright, trade marks, designs and confidential information. Her broader commercial practice includes media law (defamation, broadcast regulatory matters, contempt, privacy), competition and consumer law (including regulatory matters), white collar crime and employment.
She has extensive experience both appearing as counsel and as a solicitor leading complex commercial litigation matters both at trial and appellate level in the superior State Courts (NSW and Victoria), the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia.
At the NSW Bar, She enjoyed a busy general commercial practice specialising in IP and media matters. In 2016, she returned to private practice, for the most part working as Senior Associate and Special Counsel for HWL Ebsworth’s commercial litigation team in Sydney/Norwest. Upon relocating to Victoria in 2022, Priscilla made the decision to return to practice at the Bar. She signed the Bar Roll in March 2023.
Notable matters which Priscilla has acted in include:
- acting for the copyright owner of Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree in the long running copyright infringement dispute against the writers and publishers of Men at Work’s Down Under;
- acting for a large multinational pharmaceutical company in various matters including obtaining urgent injunctions restraining competitors from broadcasting national advertising campaigns which involved alleged misleading and comparative claims in the Federal Court (including two appeals to the Full Court and a HCA special leave application);
- acting for a large Australian media organisation in complex multi-party proceedings in the Supreme Court of NSW involving a nationally recognised law firm and international bank in associated claims arising out of a multi-million-dollar fraud committed by an employed solicitor; and
- acting the former CEO of a large international company in his defence of white-collar criminal prosecution in the District Court of NSW involving a number of charges relating to financial misconduct (bribery/corruption/corporate kickbacks
Priscilla holds a Bachelor of Arts (Music and Media) and Bachelor of Laws (Honours). She is presently undertaking the last subject in her Master of Laws (IP) at the University of Melbourne in which she is achieving First Class Honours results.
Upon joining the Victorian Bar, Priscilla undertook a period of informal reading, mentored by Kate Beattie.
