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Andrew Crocker

Bar roll 2019 Admitted 2008
  • Commercial Law Employment & Industrial
  • Public Law
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Andrew specialises in industrial relations, employment law and health and safety law

Andrew has represented employers in a wide range of industrial and employment matters and appears led and unled in trials, appeals and interlocutory applications. He is instructed by private sector and government clients.

Before Andrew joined the Victorian Bar, he was a Special Counsel in the Workplace, Relations, Employment and Safety group at HWL Ebsworth Lawyers.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation

Contact

Correspondence
Chambers & Clerk

Aickin Chambers
Level 21 Room 10

200 Queen Street 
Melbourne VIC 3000 

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Jane King

03 9225 8558

Expertise

Commercial Law
  • Contractual Disputes
Employment & Industrial
  • Appellate
  • Confidential Information
  • Discrimination
  • Employment Contracts
  • Industrial Disputes
  • Restraint of Trade
  • Statutory Employment Rights
  • Work Health & Safety
Public Law
  • Administrative Law
  • Discrimination

Qualifications

Qualifications

Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (ANU)

Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) (ANU)

Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (ANU)

Admitted

Australian Capital Territory

Entitled to practise in

State and Territory Courts and Tribunals, Federal Court of Australia & High Court of Australia

Recent Cases

Bruce Akers v The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals[2024] VSC 489

Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union v Qube Ports Pty Ltd (Port of Brisbane and Port of Port Kembla)[2024] FWC 2049 (led by M Follet SC)

Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia v NSW Electricity Networks Operations Pty Limited As Trustee For NSW Electricity Networks Operations Trust T/A Transgrid [2024] FWC 2267 (led by R Dalton KC)

NSW Electricity Networks Operations Pty Limited As Trustee For NSW Electricity Networks Operations Trust T/A Transgrid v Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia [2024] FWC 2182 (led by R Dalton KC)

Australian Workers’ Union, The v Oceania Glass Pty Ltd[2024] FWC 467

Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia v NSW Electricity Networks Operations Pty Limited As Trustee For NSW Electricity Networks Operations Trust T/A Transgrid [2024] FWCFB 333 (led by R Dalton KC)

NSW Electricity Networks Operations Pty Limited As Trustee For NSW Electricity Networks Operations Trust T/A Transgrid v Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia [2024] FWC 1914 (led by R Dalton KC)

Coe v SDI Limited (Human Rights) [2024] VCAT 605

Mathew Richardson v Ambulance Victoria [2024] FWC 1313

Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd [2024] FWCFB 250 (led by R Sweet KC)

General Manager of the Fair Work Commission v Smyth [2024] FCA 304 (led by J Firkin KC)

Fair Work Ombudsman v Brook [2024] FCA 262 (led by M Felman KC)

Fair Work Ombudsman v Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union [2024] FedCFamC2G 235 (with A Denton)

Tan v The Bays Healthcare Group Inc (Human Rights) [2024] VCAT 170

Melbourne v Gippsland and East Gippsland Aboriginal Co-Operative Limited[2024] FedCFamC2G 120

Australian Workers’ Union v Altrad APTS Pty Ltd t/a Altrad[2024] FWCFB 21 (with A Pollock)

Alisha Sortino v Wintringham[2023] FWC 2972

Dr Maxwell Winchester v Rechelle Martinez, Prof Andrew Smallridge, Victoria University[2023] FWC 2829

Tracie Schmutter v Hendrickson Asia Pacific Pty Ltd[2023] FWC 2840

VWA v Proas Group Pty Ltd[2023] VMC

Akers v The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Review and Regulation) [2023] VCAT 602

Border Lifting and Safety Pty Ltd v Russell and Russell(Costs) [2023] VCC 569

Border Lifting and Safety Pty Ltd v Russell and Russell[2023] VCC 258

Leanne Holt v AHPRA [2022] FWC 3168

Jay Szkwarek v Omega Netowrk Pty Ltd [2022] FWC 1966

The Australian Workers’ Union v PHI International Australia Pty Ltd [2022] 1003 (led by S Wood AM KC)

PHI International Australia Pty Ltd v The Australian Workers’ Union and The Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers Association [2022] FWC 579 (led by S Wood AM KC)

Peters v Commonwealth of Australia (No 2) [2022] FCA 135 (led by R Sweet KC)

Peters v Commonwealth of Australia [2021] FCA 1624 (led by R Sweet KC)

Liberty Financial Pty Ltd v Jugovic [2021] FCA 607 (led by S Wood AM KC, M Felman KC and E Murphy)

John Wilson v The Australian Capital Territory and Calvary Health Care ACT Limited[2021] FWCFB (led by Matthew Follett KC)

Idya Toner v State Management Solutions Pty Ltd[2021] FWC 6308

Adam Williams v Dinnage Shopfitting Pty Ltd[2020] FWC 6836

James Ridgeway v YMCA Aquatic Event Services Limited[2020] FWC 2518

The Australian Maritime Officers’ Union and The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers v ASP Ship Management Pty Ltd[2020] FWCFB 1469

ASP Ship Management Pty Ltd [2019] FWCA 7847