Gabi Crafti SC

Bar roll 2007 Silk 2023

Commercial Law Tort Law

Gabi Crafti SC practises in large-scale complex commercial litigation.

Gabi Crafti SC is a senior barrister specialising in large-scale complex commercial litigation. Her practice spans disputes involving insurance, major infrastructure projects, shareholders and directors, financial regulation and superannuation, equity, property and professional negligence.

She is an experienced trial and appellate advocate and has acted in a wide range of matters including class actions, commercial arbitrations, Royal Commissions and judicial advice applications (as court-appointed amicus). She is currently briefed in the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

Her expertise is consistently recognised in leading industry guides for commercial litigation, insurance law and construction law.

Gabi is the Chair of the Insurance Law Section of the Commercial Bar Association. In July 2025 she was appointed as a director of the Victorian Legal Services Board.

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation

Contact

Correspondence

Chambers & Clerk

Aickin Chambers
Level 27 Room 18

200 Queen Street
Melbourne VIC 3000

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Jane King

03 9225 8558

Expertise

Commercial Law

Appellate
Banking & Finance
Building & Construction
Class Actions
Contractual Disputes
Insurance

Tort Law

Professional Negligence

Qualifications

Qualifications

Bachelor of Laws (Hons)

Bachelor of Arts

Admitted

Victoria

Entitled to practise in

State and Territory Courts and Tribunals

Federal Court of Australia

High Court of Australia

Recent Cases

PUBLIC INTEREST

Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion: acting for Executive Council of Australian Jewry, NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, Jewish Community Council of Victoria, Zionist Federation of Australia, National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, The Dor Foundation and the Australia Israel Jewish Affairs Council.

COMMERCIAL

INPEX Operations Australia Pty Ltd v Akzonobel NV: acting for applicants in Federal Court proceeding in multi-billion dollar claim for misleading conduct in respect of a protective coating product used at the Ichthys LNG onshore processing plant in the Northern Territory, including in [2023] FCA 1248, [2023] FCA 1616, [2024] FCA 1221, [2025] FCA 320 and [2025] FCA 503

Wadren Pty Ltd v AIG Australia Pty Ltd [2024] VSC 807: acted for professional indemnity insurer in resisting application for preliminary discovery of confidential insurance documents. See also Wadren Pty Ltd v Algeri [2024] QSC 109, and Wadren Pty Ltd v Probuild Constructions (Aust) Pty Ltd[2023] VSC 348

Calder & Ors v Hanson Construction Materials Pty Ltd: acted for plaintiffs in commercial dispute regarding land and aggregate extraction in Supreme Court of Victoria, settled

Re Legal Super Pty Ltd [2023] VSC 545: appointed as amicus curiae by Supreme Court of Victoria in judicial advice application by trustee of superannuation fund

Riseley v Suncorp Portfolio Services Limited & Anor: acted for Suncorp in Full Court of Federal Court appeal [2022] FCAFC 8 against decision in [2021] FCA 472, regarding review of decision of Superannuation Complaints Tribunal

Lanhai Pty Ltd v 7-Eleven Stores Pty Ltd: acted for plaintiff franchisees in successful claim that 7-Eleven misled or deceived them, heard in Supreme Court of Victoria, including in [2021] VSC 587 and [2022] VSC 132

Re CARE Super Pty Ltd[2021] VSC 805 and (No 2)[2021] VSC 854: acted as junior to court-appointed amicus curiae in Victorian Supreme Court judicial advice application brought by industry superannuation fund trustee

Re HEST Australia Ltd (2021) 66 VR 338: acted as junior to court-appointed contradictor in Victorian Supreme Court judicial advice application brought by industry superannuation fund trustee

Ganesh v National Australia Bank Limited [2021] VSCA 45: acted for successful appellant in banking dispute in Victorian Court of Appeal

Opal Tower: acted for insurer in Federal Court indemnity dispute, including in Icon Co (NSW) Pty Ltd v Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Australian Branch[2020] FCA 1493 and on appeal in [2021] FCAFC 126 and [2021] FCAFC 131

Clark v National Australia Bank Limited & Anor: acted for MLC Limited in Federal Court class action regarding credit card insurance and personal loan insurance, including in [2020] FCA 652

ASIC v Dover Financial Advisors Pty Ltd : acted for respondents in application for pecuniary penalties in Federal Court, including in (2019) 140 ACSR 561, (2019) 140 ACSR 635 and (2021) 150 ACSR 185

CONSTRUCTION AND INFRASTRUCTURE

CPB Contractors Pty Ltd & Anor v Aurecon Australasia Pty Limited & Ors: acting for SMEC Australia Pty Ltd and AECOM Australia Pty Ltd in Supreme Court of Victoria engineering design dispute in relation to West Gate Tunnel

Publications

28 September 2017

Property Law Update - When parents buy a house for their child, can a resulting trust arise?

22 February 2016

Commercial Law Update - Insurers on the hook - CGU Insurance Limited v Blakeley & Ors [2016]

09 November 2015

Commercial Law Update - Proportionate liability meets the statute of limitations

03 March 2015

Public Law Update - First use of Vexatious Proceedings Act 2014 (Vic)

Memberships

Australian Insurance Law Association

Commercial Bar Association

Women Barristers Association