Presenters

Matthew Ray, Principal, Craig Ray & Associates
Matthew Ray is one of our principals. Matthew practices in the areas of property, wills and estates and family law, together with other general personal law matters. He graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours, and attained a Master of Laws in 2018, at which time he was admitted to the University of Queensland’s Faculty of Business, Economics and Law Dean’s Honour Roll for outstanding academic excellence. From 2017 to 2019 Matthew was a nationally accredited Mediator, under the Australian National Mediator Standards. Matthew’s post graduate studies have focused on estate planning and elder law, estate litigation and disputes, electronic commerce law and reforms and developments in property law. Matthew’s continuing involvement in higher education has seen him take on the role of an adjunct oral assessor at the College of Law, of which he is an alum. Matthew has extensive experience in project management, leadership of teams and working in the not-for-profit sector (including on state boards). Matthew was one of the inaugural members of the PEXA Member Advisory Council, working with colleagues across the state and representatives from PEXA, towards the continual improvement of the innovative property law settlement platform.


Jason Dudley, Barrister, 35 West Chambers
Jason is a barrister with a broad commercial and civil practice. He was admitted to the profession in 2014 and called to the bar in 2019. His clients have included “big four” banks, local councils, liquidators, companies, strata bodies corporate and private individuals. He acts and advises in matters involving bankruptcy and insolvency, building and construction, contractual and property disputes, trusts, equity, professional negligence, corporations law and competition and consumer law. A notable property dispute in which he is currently briefed concerns the novel application of the right to property under the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld), which is set to be heard by the Court of Appeal this year. Jason also has experience in criminal matters, and has acted in a high-profile terrorism case, and appeared unled in the Court of Appeal for the successful appellant in a conviction appeal.