• England
• Wales

• Administrative Law
• Banking and Finance
• Bankruptcy/Insolvency
• Building and Construction Law (Incl Engineering)
• Commercial Law
• Common Law
• Competition Law
• Corporations (Company) Law
• Equity and Trusts
• Probate/Wills/Family Provision
• Professional Negligence
• Public Liability
• Securities
• Taxation (Including Revenue, Customs & Excise)

Professional Background

2014 – Barrister Victorian Bar, Australia

2005 – 2013 Tenant, 3 Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn

1995 – 2004 Barrister Victorian Bar, Australia

1992 – 1994 Solicitor, Blake Dawson Waldron, Melbourne, Australia

1990 – 1991 Associate to Justice Cox, Supreme Court of South Australia (Adelaide)

1990 – 1991 Tutor in the Law of Evidence, University of Adelaide Law School

Joseph practised for ten years at the Victorian bar in Melbourne, Australia before being called in England in November 2004. He practised at 3 Stone Buildings, the Chambers of Geoffrey Vos QC (now Vos MR and prior to that Chancellor) and then Sarah Asplin QC (now Asplin LJ) until 2014, when he returned to practice in Victoria.

In England Joseph established a busy commercial and chancery practice, which included acting and appearing on behalf of certain upper level excess insurers in a Bermuda form arbitration regarding the cancellation and coverage of policies potentially applicable to worldwide lawsuits brought against a leading US pharmaceutical company (led by Geoffrey Vos QC), advising the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda in the public interest winding up of funds (IPOC Capital Growth Partners Limited and associated entities) which had received laundered monies from a politician in the Russian Federation (led by Geoffrey Vos QC), acting and appearing an ad hoc arbitration regarding breaches of fiduciary and contractual duties (including the diversion of business opportunities) arising out of a business venture in the Republic of Kazakhstan (led by Anthony Boswood QC), appearing in proceedings regarding breaches of fiduciary duties in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (led by Matthew Walton QC) and acting and appearing in an ad hoc arbitration arising from a business dispute in the UAE.

Joseph’s practice at the Victorian bar has commonly involved large disputes. On the commercial side this included acting in matters concerning the conduct of trading trusts, shareholder rights, share valuations, breaches of director’s and fiduciary duties, professional negligence (solicitors and actuaries), commercial fraud, contractual rights of termination and assessments of damages. On the Chancery side it has included acting in disputes concerning large private trusts and estates.

Recent cases have involved disputes concerning the administration of certain large family trusts include Chan v Valmorbida Custodians Pty Ltd [2021] VSC 527 (settled at trial) where he was led by Allan Myers QC. He currently acts for a substantial family trust in proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, where he is again led by Allan Myers QC.