Barrister, Higgins Chambers, Brisbane

Kate has a public, civil and regulatory practice, with expertise in administrative law, appellate law, Commonwealth workers’, veterans’ and seafarers’ compensation/personal injuries law, financial services regulation, corporations law and industrial law.

Kate has appeared led and unled in federal and state jurisdictions at trial and appellate level. She practices nationally in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Federal Circuit Court and Federal Court of Australia.

In 2019, Kate was briefed to appear, led by Stephen Keim SC, in Love and Thoms v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 3.