Charles Gunst KC
- Commercial Law Employment & Industrial
- Tort Law Public Law
Charles Gunst KC took Silk in 1997. He specialises in employment, administrative and commercial law. He practises extensively in the Victorian Supreme Court and the Federal Court, at first instance and at appellate level.
He has been a member of the Victorian Bar Council, the Editorial Committee of the Victorian Bar News and many other Bar committees, and for many years a Bar appointeee to the Council of Law Reporting in Victoria. He is also the Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Ballarat.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under the Professional Standards Legislation
Contact
- P03 9225 7794
- M0408 031 303
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Owen Dixon Chambers West
Level 1 Room 8
525 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Jane King
03 9225 8558
Expertise
- Aviation
- Contractual Disputes
- Appellate
- Confidential Information
- Employment Contracts
- Restraint of Trade
- Statutory Employment Rights
- Common Law
- Negligence
- Product Liability
- Professional Negligence
- Administrative Law
- Aged Care
- Appellate
- Commissions & Inquiries
- Immigration
- Judicial Review
Qualifications
Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Laws
Master of Laws
Victoria
New South Wales
State and Territory Courts and Tribunals
Federal Court of Australia
High Court of Australia
Recent Cases
French & Ors v Smith & Ors [2004] VSCA 207 - partnership dispute
Tru Floor Pty Ltd and Ors v Jenkins [2006] FCA 632 - company directors insolvent trading
Beevers v Port Phillip Sea Pilots Pty Ltd & Anor [2007] VSC 556 (Corporations Act: company shareholders' dispute, Supreme Court, Dodds-Streeton J)
Rotorcare Pty Ltd v The Helicopter Services (Agencies) Australia Pty Ltd & Anor [2007] VSC 481 (aviation contract dispute, Supreme Court, Forrest J)
Barfuss & Ors v Altmann [2008] NTCA 1 (mining joint venture dispute, Northern Territory Court of Appeal, Martin CJ, Riley and Southwood JJ)
Sali v Metzke & Allen [2009] VSC 48 (accountants' negligence/proportionate liability, Supreme Court, Whelan J)
Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha Ltd v Tomar [2010] FCA 565 and [2010] FCA 1342 (company shareholders' dispute, Federal Court, Dodds- Streeton J)
Kalenik v Apostolidis & Ors [2009] VSC 208, [2009] VSC 410 and [2009] VSC 475 (Property Law Act de facto property dispute, Supreme Court, Hargrave J
Watkins v The State of Victoria & Ors [2010] VSCA 138 (police assault damages claim, Court of Appeal, Ashley and Mandie JJA and Beach AJA)
Walker v Citigroup Global Markets Australia Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 1866 and [2006] FCAFC 101 (Trade Practices/ employment contract, Federal Court, Kenny J and on appeal to the Full Federal Court Gyles, Edmonds and Greenwood JJ )
Whittaker v Unisys Australia Pty Ltd [2010] VSC 9 (employment redundancy claim, Supreme Court, Ross J)
Carter v The Dennis Family Corporation [2010] VSC 406 and [2010] VSC 431 (breach of employment contract, Supreme Court, Habersberger J)
Riverside Nursing Care Pty Ltd v Secretary, Department of Health and Aged Care [2003] AATA 248 and on appeal [2003] FCA 1065 - nursing home disqualification appeal , AAT
Saitta Pty Ltd v Secretary, Department of Health and Aged Care[2003] VSC 170 - public law misfeasance damages claim
Marnotta Pty Ltd v Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing[2005] AATA 426 then on appeal [2005] FCA 1395 - nursing home disqualification appeal
Visscher v Australian Industrial Relations Commission [2005] FCAFC 252 - industrial relations appeal
Comcare v Line [2002] FCAFC 321 - Commonwealth employees' compensation appeal
Barclay v The Board of Bendigo Regional Institute of TAFE [2010] FCA 284 and on appeal [2011] FCAFC 14 (industrial dispute, workplace discrimination, Federal Court)
VAI v Forgie [2003] FCA FCA 87 - income tax appeal
Allan and Macdonald v Australian Wool Innovation Ltd [2005] FCA 105 - trade practices, employment contracts
Hardcrome Engineering Pty Ltd v Kambrook Distributing Pty Ltd[2000] VSC 359 - product liability
Pendrigh v Canon Australia Pty Ltd [2000] VSC 511 - product liability
Whittle and Ors v Filaria Pty Ltd [2004] ACTSC 45 - trade practices, investment scheme
Walker v Citigroup Global Markets Australia Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 1866 and [2006] FCAFC 101 - Trade practices, employment contract
Dimos v Skaftouros & Ors [2004] VSCA 141 - probate, removal of executor
O'Sullivan v Parkin [2008] FCAFC 134 (public interest immunity claim in respect of security documents, Full Federal Court, Ryan, North and Jessup JJ)
Re Minister for Immigration, Ex parte Te and Dang (2002) 212 CLR 162 (constitutional law, aliens power for criminal deportation)
STCB v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs [2006] HCA 61; (2006) 231 ALR 556; (2006) 81 ALJR 485 (administrative law: immigration appeal, High Court)
Daley v Newnham and Ors [2005] VSC 303 - political party faction dispute
Wong v Inspector-General in Bankruptcy [2008] AATA 487 (Bankruptcy Act: appeal against disqualification of trustee).
Cabal and Ors v Minster for Immigration [1999] FCA 11; [1999] FCA 13; [1999] FCA 188; [1999] FCA 709; [2000] FCA 1806 - a series of challenges to the deportation of a high-profile fugitive banker
Minister for Immigration v VFAD of 2002 [2002] FCAFC 390 - power of Federal Court to order release from immigration detention
Bakhtiari v Minister for Immigration - a series of challenges to the immigration detention of children in the Family Court in Adelaide 2004-2005
VAF v Minister for Immigration [2004] FCAFC 123- refugee appeal
Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v SZCWF [2007] FCAFC 155 (administrative law: immigration appeal, Full Federal Court)
Memberships
Member of the Board of Directors of List G Barristers
Council of Law Reporting in Victoria, Bar Appointee (since 1982)
Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Melbourne) Liaison Committee (since 1994)
Deputy Chancellor, Anglican Diocese of Ballarat (and from December 2010 acting Chancellor)
Instructor (part-time) at the Leo Cussen Institute in its Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice course since 1985