Mills Oakley Lawyers

Stephen Dickens
Partner
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Stephen is a partner in Mills Oakley’s Brisbane Commercial Litigation and Insolvency practice.

Experience

Stephen has nearly 20 years experience as a commercial litigation lawyer.
He has acted for a diverse range of clients, and his experience is wide ranging, including handling disputes in the areas of contract, property, leasing, corporations law, franchising, intellectual property,  professional negligence, insolvency and trade practices.
His experience has included acting in many complex and large scale litigation matters, as well as sensitive and “ground breaking” matters. As part of Stephen’s Litigation practice, he emphasises the notion of alternative dispute resolution, mainly through mediation, and aims to develop strategies with clients that try to maximise the prospects of an early resolution, if at all possible.

As regards his insolvency expertise, he has extensive experience in both personal and corporate insolvency, and has acted for all manner of stakeholders across many external administrations including voluntary administrations, receiverships, liquidations and provisional liquidations. Those stakeholders have included insolvency practitioners, directors, creditors and shareholders.

Stephen also has a strong interest in turnaround management, as well as statutory demand law and procedure,
insolvent trading claims, oppression matters, voidable transaction matters, regulatory issues and retention of title issues.

Stephen’s interest in maritime law has also seen him complete an intensive short course in Maritime Law at the University of Southampton, UK.

He is also a regular presenter at seminars, and in 2006 was accredited by the Queensland Law Society as a Commercial Litigation Specialist.

Litigation Expertise includes:

• Contract;
• Executive employment matters;
• Property, and leasing, including retail shop leases;
• Corporate, including shareholder/director disputes, and oppression actions;
• Franchising;
• Intellectual property;
• Restitution;
• Professional negligence;
• Trade practices;
• Fraud;
• Insolvency; and
• Recovery actions.

Professional Qualifications

• LL.B and B.Econ (University of Queensland)
• Admitted as a lawyer in Queensland, England and Wales and the Federal Court of Australia
• Queensland Law Society accredited Commercial Litigation specialist
• Masters of Law majoring in Civil Litigation and Corporate Insolvency