Name
Allan J Myers QC (Australia)

Professional qualifications and appointments

• Called to the Bar (Victoria, Australia) 1975; QC 1986
• Queen's Counsel for all Jurisdictions in Australia
• Lawyer, Papua New Guinea 1986
• Called to the Bar (England and Wales) 1988

Areas of practice

Commercial law, constitutional and administrative law, corporations law, equity & trusts, petroleum law, property law, taxation law, trade practices law

Significant cases

Pilmer & Ors -v- Duke Group Ltd (in liq) and Ors (HCA 31) [2001] 180 A.L.R. 249

Figgins Holdings Pty Ltd -v- SEAA Enterprises Pty Ltd  [1999] 196 C.L.R. 245

Esso Australia Resources Ltd & Ors -v- Plowman & Ors [1995] 183 C.L.R. 10

Oil Basins Ltd -v- The Commonwealth of Australia & Ors [1993] 178 C.L.R. 643

Brott -v- The Queen [1992] 173 C.L.R. 326

National Australia Bank Ltd & Ors -v- Bond Brewing Holdings Ltd & Ors [1990] 169 C.L.R. 271

Banque Commerciale S.A. en liquidation -v- Akhil Holdings Ltd [1990] 169 C.L.R. 279

Austotel Pty Ltd -v- Franklins Selfservice Pty Ltd [1989] 16 NSWLR 582

Myer Emporium Ltd -v- Federal Commissioner of Taxation [1987] 163 C.L.R. 199

Federal Commissioner of Taxation -v- Myer Emporium Ltd (No.1) [1986] 160 C.L.R. 220

The Broken Hill Proprietary Co Pty Ltd & Elders IXL Ltd -v- National Companies & Securities Commission [1986] 160 C.L.R. 492

Handevel Pty Ltd -v- Comptroller of Stamps (Vic) [1985] 157 C.L.R. 177

Hematite Petroleum Pty Ltd -v- The State of Victoria [1983] 151 C.L.R. 599

O'Reilly  & Ors -v- State Bank of Vic. Commissioners [1983] 153 C.L.R. 1

Church of the New Faith -v- Commissioner of Pay-Roll Tax (Vic) [1983] 154 C.L.R. 120

Dampier Mining Co -v- Federal Commissioner of Taxation [1981] 147 C.L.R. 408

Nilsen Development Laboratories Pty Ltd -v- Federal Commissioner of Taxation [1981] 144 C.L.R.  616

Education and other experience

• 1965-1970 University of Melbourne, Australia - BA, LLB (Supreme Court Prize)
• 1971-1972 Christ Church, Oxford - BCL
• 1972-1973 Assistant Professor of Law at Yorke University, Toronto, Canada
• 1974-1988 Lecturer in Security and Taxation Law (including Masters Program) at University of Melbourne
• Member until 1996 of Council of Taxation Institute of Australia
• Member of the Institute of Arbitrators Australia

Publications

• Editor of Australia Taxation Review from 1975 - 1993
• Many articles on Revenue Law published in Australia and elsewhere