Richard Scruby SC
Administrative, Public & Constitutional
Arbitration
Commercial
Commissions of Enquiry
Consumer Protection
Corporate Reconstruction & Insolvency
Corporations
Equity
Insurance
Real property
Tax
Mr Scruby practices in a variety of jurisdictions, with a general focus on commercial, equity and corporations matters. He appears for the Commissioner of Taxation in the AAT and Federal Court, and has appeared for a variety of parties in different jurisdictions in cases involving the mining industry. In 2015 he was junior counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption. He was appointed silk in 2017. He is a member of the Diversity and Equality Committee of the New South Wales Bar Association. A full CV is available on request.
Relevant Past Employment
February-October 1999: Associate to Justice Callinan, High Court of Australia.
December 1997 – February 1998: Summer Clerk/Paralegal, Mallesons Stephen Jacques: Taxation, Litigation.
Education
1999 – 2001 BCL (Hons), MPhil – University of Oxford
1992 – 1998 LLB (Hons 1st class) – University of Sydney
1992 – 1996 BA (Hons 1st class and university medal) – University of Sydney