Mark Walsh SC
Mark Walsh was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1994, and took silk in 2015. His areas of practice include general litigation, commercial disputes, contract, tort, medical negligence, professional negligence, insurance law and coronial proceedings. Mark has a particular interest in factual disputes,evidence, causation, statutory interpretation, the operation of WCA s151Z in common law proceedings, collateral source recoveries and suggesting practical solutions to “interesting” legal problems.
Mark is a member of the New South Wales Bar Association's Costs and Fees Committee. Mark is a contributing author to Thomson Reuters’ Civil Practice and Procedure, including the provisions on evidence and expert evidence in Part 31. He regularly lectures on litigation at seminars conducted by the University of New South Wales, including the Litigation Master Class series.
Mark has been recognised in Best Lawyers for professional negligence since 2017 and in Doyle's Guide as a recommended senior counsel in Leading Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Barristers – Canberra, since 2020.
- Manny v David Lardner Lawyers (No 4) [2024] ACTCA 12
- Manny v David Lardner Lawyers (No 2) [2021] ACTSC 289
- McLennan v Meyer Vandenberg 2020 ACTCA 7
- Leda Commercial Properties Pty Ltd v Brenda Hungerford Pty Ltd [2018] ACTCA 17
- Goran Petrovic v Dr Anthony Johnson [2017] NSWDC 205
- Read v Burns [2017] ACTSC 184
- Hobson v Northern Sydney Local Health District [2017] NSWSC 589
- Tuggeranong Town Centre Pty Ltd v Brenda Hungerford Pty Ltd (No 2) [2017] ACTSC 88
- Europa International Pty Ltd v Child [2016] NSWSC 923
- Europa International Pty Ltd v Child (No 2) [2016] NSWSC 1275
- Appointed Senior Counsel: 2015
- Admitted to NSW Bar: 1994
- DipL (Syd)
- BDS (Syd)
- CPD Seminar: Consistency and change during the course of Litigation, 11 November 2022
- CPD Seminar: Pleadings from the defendant’s perspective, 29 March 2021
- College of Law Litigation Master Class Seminar on Case Theory 21 March 2019
- Litigation Masterclass Seminar: Proof – substantive and procedural considerations, (UNSW 2013)
- "Time and Money" (2011) 34 Australian Bar Review 325
- Commercial Litigation Seminar: Digital Evidence (UNSW 2011)
- Litigation Masterclass Seminar: Pillars of Litigation (UNSW 2009)
- Litigation Masterclass: Correcting Error (UNSW 2007)