Michael Shand QC

Michael Shand has practised as a barrister at the Victorian Bar since 1980, a Queen’s Counsel since 1997.  His practice has covered a range of civil work in the superior courts including commercial, corporations, public superannuation, constitutional law, trusts, trade practices, property, insurance, insolvency and administrative appeals.  He has practised as both an arbitrator and an accredited mediator.

He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration.  He is a Chartered Arbitrator.  He is also a Presidential member of the Special Tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia and the President of its Episcopal Standards Board.  He is also the Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne.

He has acted as senior counsel in Federal Court litigation involving the interpretation and operation of a wholesale services agreement with a telecommunications service provider.  The matter was eventually resolved.

From 2011 to 2013, he acted as the arbitrator in a substantial construction dispute involving an infrastructure project which came to a satisfactory resolution in late 2013.   

As arbitrator, he delivered a formal arbitration award in a dispute involving a finance agreement.  A party sought leave to appeal which was refused by the Supreme Court of Victoria in Winter v Equuscorp Pty Ltd [2010] VSC 419.

He is a past President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) Limited (2005-6), a past Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council (2006-7) and past Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Ballarat (2002-10). As a member of the Victorian Bar Council from 2000 to 2007, he led the development of the Bar’s comprehensive web site and was a member of its technology and communications subcommittee.