Elected to the Bar: 2025
Liability limited by a Scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation
Gavan Cruise
Gavan Cruise accepts briefs in all areas of commercial law.
Before joining the Bar, Gavan was a senior associate at Bennett where he acted for clients on a wide range of commercial matters involving contracts, shareholders, directors, trusts, leases, property, intellectual property and insurance.
He also has experience in regulatory proceedings, workplace health and safety investigations and prosecutions, construction disputes, the administration of trusts and deceased estates, search orders and injunctions.
Gavan has had conduct of matters in the Federal Court, the Supreme, District and Magistrates Court (WA), the State Administrative Tribunal (WA), the Supreme Court of the ACT, as well as international and domestic arbitrations.
Gavan was the Associate to the Honourable Justice Tottle of the Supreme Court of Western Australia for 2 years and holds a Bachelor of Laws with honours and a Bachelor of Economics.
He joins Francis Burt Chambers as a pupil.
Qualifications
Date of admission: 2016
Qualifications: BA, LLB (Hons)
Areas of practice
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Commercial
- Appellate
- Building and construction
- Competition
- Construction and engineering
- Consumer protection law
- Contractual disputes
- Corporations law
- Equity
- Insurance
- Intellectual property
- Intentional torts
- Landlord and tenant
- Mining and resources
- Negligence
- Partnership disputes
- Professional liability
- Professional negligence
- Real property
- Restraint of trade
- Trusts
- Industrial and Employment
- Inquests and Inquiries
- Public and Administrative
- Succession