Dr Caroline Kenny KC

Caroline has more than 30 years’ experience in complex commercial disputes including as Kings’ Counsel for 15 years.  She has practised in Australia, New York and London and is admitted in all three jurisdictions.  

Caroline maintains chambers at Owen Dixon Chambers West in Melbourne, Australia, and at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, London. She practices in a broad range of commercial law, insurance law, construction, energy and intellectual property disputes. 

Caroline has broad experience in complex common law and commercial disputes in all Australian states.  For a selection of Caroline's recent clases please see the attached List of cases.

Caroline is a Chartered Arbitrator and regularly sits as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations and in sport arbitrations. She is the Australasian Trustee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, former President of the Australian branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Fellow of the Australian Centre For Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). Her arbitration experience includes appointments as counsel, sole arbitrator and presiding arbitrator in numerous international commercial arbitrations under the rules of major arbitral institutions.  She is on the London based CIArb Approved Faculty Listing and has taught the CIArb pre-eminent Diploma Course in International Commercial Arbitration in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and for three successive years at Oxford university. Caroline was the Course Director for the APAC Diploma in International Arbitration course held in Perth in July 2018 and in Singapore in May 2019.  She is also the Course Director for the CIArb Accelerated Route to Fellowship course and for the CIArb Award Writing course.

Caroline is empanelled on numerous arbitration panels including SIAC, HKIAC, AIAC, ICDR and WIPO.

Caroline’s ruling as a sole arbitrator in a challenge to jurisdiction was upheld by the High Court of Singapore and led to new law on an arbitral tribunal’s discretion when a challenge to jurisdiction is made:  Malini Ventura v Knight Capital Pte Ltd and others [2015] SGHC 225.

To download Caroline's CV click here.  For a list of cases in which Caroline has been involved click here.