Presenters

Richard Brooks, Consultant, Ashurst
Richard Brooks is a consultant in Ashurst's real estate practice. Richard has a broad real estate practice, including acting for REITs and other institutional property owners, developers and corporate and government real estate occupiers, and acting on real estate aspects of financing, M&A, infrastructure and energy and resources projects. Richard is experienced in acting on commercial property leasing (for landlords and tenants), sale and lease backs, real estate investment and real estate development. Richard is listed in Best Lawyers Australia 2025 in Real Property Law, Leasing Law and Government Practice.

Timothy Walker KC, Barrister, List G Barristers
Tim Walker KC practises in commercial, equity and public law. He has extensive experience in a broad range of commercial and equity matters including competition and consumer law, property law, trust law, product liability and corporations law. In public and regulatory law he practises predominantly in matters overlapping with major infrastructure and property development projects including environmental effects and property-related issues. He holds a Master of Environment from the University of Melbourne. As an advocate he has broad experience in superior courts, specialist tribunals and public inquiries. He is an accredited and practising advocacy instructor.


Jeremy Masters, Barrister, List G Barristers
Jeremy practises predominantly in commercial law, with extensive experience in complex commercial disputes and litigation across a broad range of jurisdictions. His expertise spans real property, contract, insolvency, product liability, tort (including professional negligence and nuisance), trade practices, judicial review and telecommunications. He has appeared in the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court, the Victorian Court of Appeal, the Supreme Courts of Victoria and New South Wales, as well as specialist tribunals including the AAT, VCAT and the National Sports Tribunal. Before coming to the Bar, Jeremy spent nine years as a senior associate in the commercial litigation group at Freehills. He holds a Master of Laws from the University of Melbourne and has made significant academic contributions, including authoring the Nuisance subtitle in Laws of Australia and the Third Party Procedure chapter in Court Forms, Precedents and Pleadings Victoria. He is a former editor of the Melbourne University Law Review. Jeremy regularly appears in property disputes involving mortgages, leases, contracts of sale, easements and statutory claims. He has also been involved in major tort litigation, including the Talacko proceedings in the High Court and Court of Appeal. His practice further extends to trust law, commercial arbitration and administrative law, including privacy and judicial review matters.