Admitted to Bar: 2002

Appointed Senior Counsel: 2017

Floor Member Since: 2005

Mr Scruby has a broad ranging practice with a focus on commercial, insolvency, corporations and taxation (State and Commonwealth) matters.  He regularly appears in appeals, trials and commercial arbitrations.  In 2015 he was counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption.  Before coming to the bar, he worked as an associate to Justice Callinan in the High Court of Australia.  He has a BCL and MPhil from Oxford University and a BA (hons 1^st class and university medal in English) and LLB (hons first class) Sydney University.  Mr Scruby has adopted the national equitable briefing policy and was a member of the Diversity and Equality Committee of the New South Wales Bar Association from 2016 to 2018.  He has published a number of articles in academic journals on corporations and commercial law.  Mr Scruby is listed in Best Lawyers 2025 in the area of Litigation.