Gabi Crafti SC
- Commercial Law Tort Law
Gabi Crafti SC is a senior barrister with a substantial practice in complex, high-value commercial disputes. She regularly acts for global insurers, government departments and entities, major infrastructure project principals and contractors, ASX-listed companies, and superannuation trustees in trials and appeals across all Australian courts.
She is an experienced advocate and has acted in a wide range of matters including class actions, Royal Commissions, commercial arbitrations, and judicial advice applications (as court-appointed amicus). She is currently briefed in the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. She also acts on behalf of the State of Victoria in its cladding rectification cost recovery litigation program.
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
- P03 9225 7534
- M0413 450 953
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Aickin Chambers
Level 27 Room 18
200 Queen Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Jane King
03 9225 8558
Expertise
- Appellate
- Banking & Finance
- Building & Construction
- Class Actions
- Contractual Disputes
- Insurance
- Professional Negligence
Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws (Hons)
Bachelor of Arts
Victoria
State and Territory Courts and Tribunals
Federal Court of Australia
High Court of Australia
Recent Cases
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.
Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry: acted for MLC Limited
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 regarding West Gate Tunnel
Acting for State of Victoria in cladding rectification cost recovery litigation program, including in Owners Corporation 1 Plan No PS 707553K v Shangri-La Construction Pty Ltd (ACN 130 534 244) [2023] VCC 1473
Geelong-Bacchus Marsh Road road-widening works: acted for Head, Transport for Victoria in arbitration regarding dispute with contractor, settled
Downer EDI Engineering Power Pty Ltd v APA Orbost Gas Plant Pty Ltd: acted for APA in Supreme Court of Victoria construction dispute, settled
West Gate Tunnel Project: acted for State of Victoria, led by Martin Scott KC
Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd v Aegis Correctional Partnership Pty Ltd: acted for Multiplex in Supreme Court proceeding regarding construction of Ararat prison, settled
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
Memberships
Australian Insurance Law Association
Commercial Bar Association
Women Barristers Association