Previous Occupation
Articles - Gillotts (now Minter Ellison) 1986-87. Solicitor - Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks, 1987-90.

Profile
Mr. Wyles S.C. has extensive trial experience in the Supreme Court of Victoria, the Federal Court of Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Perth), the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and the Supreme Court of South Australia.

In addition Mr Wyles S.C. has appeared in the High Court, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia and the Court of Appeal in Victoria.

Mr Wyles S.C. has appeared in more than 150 cases in which judgment has been delivered.

This experience in court has caused Mr Wyles S.C. to achieve both a thorough working knowledge of Uniform Evidence Act, as well as the common law rules of evidence. Importantly, for his clients, it has provided Mr Wyles S.C. with a good understanding of the issues which judges want counsel to deal with (i.e. the issues upon which the judge or judges will determine the case).

Whilst in no sense pretending to be exhaustive it is to be noted that Mr. Wyles S.C. has been instructed in:

commercial matters (including restrictive trade practices - Part IV of the TPA: Cadbury's claim against Amcor for damages which it suffered at the hands of the cardboard box cartel, the first claim in Australia for such damages);

equity matters (including Barnes v Addy claims);

common law matters (contract, negligence, professional negligence and insurance law claims);

defences to civil penalty prosecutions brought by Commonwealth agencies such as ASIC, the ACCC and Comcare;

public law and constitutional matters.

Victorian Bar Committee Memberships