13 Wentworth Selborne - Sydney barristers and lawyers

174 - 180 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000
TEL: (02) 9232 7750

Jason Downing

Barrister

Tel: (02) 9221 0898 Fax: (02) 9232 4071

Email: jdowning@13wentworthselbornechambers.com.au

Admitted to the Bar

February 2000

Previous Occupation

Solicitor
Associate Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Northern Territory University

Legal Education

BEc LLB (Hons) (Sydney)
LLM (Sydney)

Areas of Practice

Commercial Law
Commissions of Inquiry
Common Law
Coronial Inquests
Equity
Insurance Law
Medical Negligence
Professional Negligence
Professional Standards Compliance
Public and Product Liability
Sports Law

Admitted to Practice

NSW and Federal Courts

Memberships

Legal Member, NSW Cancer Council Ethics Committee 1999 - March 2003
Chairperson NSW Cancer Council Ethics Committee April 2003 to December 2008
Member NSW / ACT AFL Tribunal 2007 to date

Special Interests

Professional Indemnity, Health and all aspects of Medical Practice

Publications

"Warnings and Risks in Plastic Surgery", presented as a submission to the NSW Government Inquiry into Plastic Surgery, 1998.

"Ownership of Medical Records and Duties of Confidentiality in Medical Practice", published in Journal of Law and Medicine, Volume 8, No 4, May 2001

CLE Papers

Factual Causation and the Effect of Section 5D(3) of the Civil Liability Act in Professional Negligence Litigation (August 2010)

Offers of Compromise and Calderbank Offers (February 2010)

Evidence and the Court Process (September 2009)

Offers of Compromise (November 2006)

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