• Joined independent bar in 1989 after having been admitted to practice eight years earlier.
• Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2000.
• Practices in criminal law.
• Member of the WA Bar Association since 1989.
• Joint-chairman LAWASIA standing committee on criminal law.
• Has been retained to act for such clients as international art critic Robert Hughes, legendary Sydney nightclub identity Abe Saffron and iron-ore magnate Gina Rinehart, but has also, like the majority of criminal lawyers, been ever ready to take on the case of every person brought before the law.
• Has also prosecuted criminal cases for the Director of Public Prosecutions; appeared as counsel at two Royal Commissions; and special inquiries before the Corruption and Crime Commission (CCC).
• Appointed by the Australian Government in 2006 to undertake a review of the coercive legislative powers of the Australian Crime Commission (ACC).
• Throughout 2005-2006, in Perth and Sydney, he acted as counsel on behalf of the masters of foreign fishing vessels that had been seized by the Australian Customs for allegedly poaching the Patagonian toothfish in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.
• Involved in negotiations at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg on behalf of the owners of foreign fishing vessels.
• Since 2002 he has acted as an international observer for several organisations, including the Australian Bar Association, Law Council of Australia, Lawasia, the International Commission of Jurists, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, the Union Internationale des Advocates and the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union. On their behalf, he has observed and reported on the trials and appeals of the opposition leaders of Malaysia (former deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim) and Sri Lanka (General Sarath Fonseka).
• More recently, he has also observed the sedition trial of veteran Malaysian advocate Karpal Singh and contempt charges against Minister Rishad Bathiudeen of Sri Lanka. In 2012 he acted as an observer at the treason trial of UDD (Red Shirt) leader Jatuporn Prompan at Bangkok, Thailand.
• Observer for the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Lawasia and Law Council of Australia in 2013–2016 at the criminal appeal against Anwar Ibrahim’s acquittal and his counter appeal to the Federal Court of Malaysia.
• Member of legal team advising on appeal against conviction of Myanmar nationals Zaw Lin and Wai Phyu sentenced to death for the murder of English backpackers at Koh Tao, Thailand (2016)
• Bestselling author of ‘The Trial of Anwar Ibrahim – Sodomy II’ (2012); and follow up book ‘The Prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim-The Final Play’, Marshall Cavendish (2015)