William Isdale

Areas of practice

Administrative and Public Law
Commercial (including Corporations and Contract)
Defamation
Employment / Industrial Relations
Environment and Planning
Equity and Trusts
Estate litigation
Inquests, Commissions of Inquiry & Statutory Tribunals
Insurance
Intellectual Property
Mining, Energy and Resources
Native Title
Professional Negligence
Property
Regulatory disputes (Inc Health, Law, Mining, OH&S)
Taxation
Trade Practices and Competition

Contact

Phone: 0432 069 212
Email: wisdale@qldbar.asn.au

William has a broad civil practice. He has a particular interest in commercial (including contractual and corporate), administrative, land (including resources, native title, environmental and planning), regulatory, employment / industrial, and succession matters.

Prior to being called to the Bar, William worked as an Associate at MinterEllison (focusing on commercial and regulatory work for financial services clients), and as a Senior Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission (working on the Corporations and Financial Services Inquiry).   

Previously he has served as an Associate to the Hon. Justice Dowsett AM on the Federal Court of Australia, and before that to Commissioner Graeme Neate AM on the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission and Industrial Court of Queensland.

William holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Queensland, a LLM in International Financial and Commercial Law from King’s College London, and a PhD in Law from the University of Queensland. He was the recipient of the Holt Prize in 2021 for his PhD thesis, which has since been published as a book by The Federation Press.