Connect with meChristy’s key areas of practice are professional indemnity and directors and officers’ claims. She specialises in defending claims against technology and construction professionals, and regularly acts as coverage counsel for insurers in high value disputes.
Christy has practised law in Australia and the UK. Earlier in her career, she was a judge’s associate in the Federal Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Victoria.
She is known for her technical ability and her strategic and commercial approach to disputes.
Christy is also actively involved in the firm’s pro bono efforts through the Victorian Self-Represented Litigant Service.
Technology Liability
- Acting for a website developer in a claim involving the failed implementation of a payment processing system.
- Acting for a website developer in respect of a claim by an aggrieved client for alleged breach of contract and misleading and deceptive conduct.
- Acting for a managed services provider (MSP) in multiple claims by former clients following a cyber breach.
- Acting for a software developer in relation to the design and implementation of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, where the client alleges that years of delays and significant additional costs were caused by the developer’s design and project management failures.
Professional Indemnity
- Acting for a structural engineer in relation to a foundation movement claim involving over 100 homes and complex causation issues.
- Acting as coverage counsel for PI insurers in relation to mitigation loss claims by construction professionals.
- Defending multi-party proceedings against a structural engineer for allegedly defective inspection services and advice in relation to an aged care facility.
- Acting for an architect in respect of a claim for allegedly non-compliant cladding to an apartment building.
- Acting for insurers in a litigated coverage dispute, including advising on the interaction between the insured’s professional indemnity and management liability policies.
- Defending a claim against a construction PI insurer for an allegedly defective design of an industrial facility, where the insured engineer was deregistered.
Directors & Officers Liability
- Acting as coverage and monitoring counsel in complex and high value securities class actions.
- Providing advice to insurers regarding coverage under directors & officers and management liability policies.
Areas of Expertise
- Directors + Officers Liability
- Management Liability
- Professional Liability
- Technology Liability
Industry Representation
- Construction + Infrastructure
- Industrial + Commercial Property
- Professions + Business Services
- Technology + Cyber
Professional Affiliations
- Australian Insurance Law Association
- Law Institute of Victoria
- Victorian Women Lawyers
- Women in Insurance