Member Profiles

Contact Details

Fiona Cameron
William Forster Chambers

26 Harry Chan Avenue
Darwin NT 0800

PO Box 4369
DARWIN NT 0801

Tel: (08) 8982 4700
Fax:
Email: fcameron@williamforster.com

Year and Place of First Admission

2013, Victoria

Other Jurisdictions

High Court, Federal Court and Tribunals

Legal Qualifications

Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (Adelaide), Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (ANU), Master of Public and International Law (Melbourne), MCIArb

Areas of Practice

Administrative and Public Law, Appeals, Arbitration, Commercial Law, Company Law, Constitutional Law, Engineering and Construction Disputes, Equity, Partnerships and Trusts, Injunctions, Insolvency, Insurance, International Law, Mining Resources and the Environment, Trade Practices.

Career

Fiona practises primarily in commercial law, with a particular focus on building and construction, complex commercial and taxation matters.

She joined the Victorian Bar in 2015 and since that time has advised and appeared in a number of significant matters both before the courts and in other fora, including:

  • Acting for a public water authority in relation to a large-scale dispute concerning the design and construction of a recycled water treatment plant
  • Advising in relation to international arbitral proceedings under Singaporean and Australian law concerning an LNG project
  • Acting for the contractor in a dispute concerning a wind farm project
  • Drawing documents in relation to applications for special leave to appeal to the High Court in taxation and commercial law matters
  • Acting on behalf of the Commissioner of Taxation and taxpayers in relation to transfer pricing disputes
  • Acting on behalf of a developer in relation to Supreme Court proceedings regarding a proposed development near the Darwin CBD

Before joining the Bar, Fiona was Associate to the Honourable Justice Pagone of the Federal Court of Australia, assisting his Honour in a wide range of commercial and public law matters. Prior to this, Fiona was an Associate at the Supreme Court of Victoria to Justices Davies, Bongiorno and Hargrave, where she assisted in matters in the commercial trial division and in criminal and civil appeals. Fiona was previously employed by Crawford Legal, an Adelaide-based boutique commercial and construction law firm.

Fiona is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (International Arbitration), and has been recognised in Doyle’s Guide to Leading Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Junior Counsel.

Fiona joined the Northern Territory Bar in 2021.