Presenters

Gregory Burton SC, 5 Wentworth Chambers
Gregory Burton SC FCIArb FRI TEP practises primarily in commercial/equity matters, at trial and appellate levels, from 5 Wentworth Chambers, with a focus on corporations, finance and securities, insolvency, insurance, trusts, property (intellectual, personal, real) and succession/family provision. He took silk in 2004. He is also a long-standing mediator and arbitrator, expert determiner, and domain name dispute determiner for auDA. He edits and co-authors a banking and finance law journal and text, and has authored and edited books, articles and commentary, and speaks, on aspects of commercial law/equity, public law, evidence and practice/ethics and ADR. He is Procurator (church counsel) for the Presbyterian Church of Australia, federally and in some States, chairs and has chaired or been a member of dispute or discipline panels for various organisations and holds a part-time tribunal appointment (primary and appellate).

Luke Geary, Partner – NFPs, Human Rights & Social Impact, Mills Oakley
Luke has a particular expertise assisting institutions in responding to claims of child sexual abuse under a restorative justice framework and in accordance with best practice principles identified by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In this regard, Luke appeared as a legal advisor in a number of public hearings before the Royal Commission, he participated in many of the Royal Commission’s roundtables (both public and private) for the development of policy positions and has appeared before the Australian Senate Committee and worked with the Commonwealth Redress Taskforce in its design of the National Redress Bill (which is anticipated to provide assistance in justice outcomes for approximately 60,000 Australians). Luke is regularly briefed by major institutions in the most sensitive and significant common law abuse claims and assists in their delicate resolution in a trauma-informed way. Additionally, Luke acts for survivors of abuse in claims against State government institutions, assisting them to obtain either common law or redress justice outcomes compassionately and giving them assistance in finding healing in their lives. Luke was named one of Australia’s Best Lawyers for Non-Profit/Charities Law in the 2023/2024 Best Lawyers list for the eighth consecutive year, including in both 2020/2021 and 2023/2024 being named as Australia’s Non-Profit/Charities ‘Lawyer of the Year’.