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Noel Batrouney

Partner

+61 3 9603 3506
noel.batrouney@hallandwilcox.com.au
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Current Practice

Noel’s practice includes:

  • commercial litigation;
  • banking and finance litigation;
  • insolvency litigation;
  • Competition and Consumer Act (formerly Trade Practices Act) issues;
  • intellectual property litigation;
  • oil and gas industry litigation and advice;
  • franchising litigation; and 
  • computer and software disputes.

Experience

Noel’s clients include public and private companies, banks and other financial institutions, security printers, oil companies and a significant number of large and small businesses and accountants. 

Noel has been involved in a significant amount of banking and finance industry litigation. Noel has undertaken recent work for Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Bank of Melbourne (formerly St George Bank), ANZ Banking Group Limited and AXA Australia.

Noel has been involved in a significant amount of large-scale litigation including:  

  • acting for liquidators, administrators and receivers in litigation in the Supreme and Federal Courts; 
  • defence of prosecutions under the Competition and Consumer Act and former Trade Practices Act;
  • litigation arising out of the collapse of Tricontinental Merchant Bank and the Pyramid Building Society;
  • litigation arising from computer hardware and software disputes;
  • a number of franchise disputes in the Federal, Supreme and County Courts; and
  • Commissions and Inquiries for Tricontinental, Farrow Group, the building industry and HIH.

Qualifications

Noel has a Bachelor in Laws and a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University. He became partner in 1977 and has been managing partner for two periods of six years, from 1992 to 1998 and from 2001 to 2007.

Noel is a member of the Law Institute of Victoria, the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, and the Australian Insurance Law Association. He is also an associate member of CPA Australia and member of The Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

 

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