5 Wentworth Chambers — Australia
View the full 5 Wentworth Chambers profile
About
5 Wentworth is one of Australia’s leading sets of barristers’ chambers, providing expert legal advocacy and advice. The founding members of 5 Wentworth first established chambers in 1932. Today it is one of Australia’s most respected chambers, known for its collegiality and the range and depth of its members’ practices. The chambers currently has 39 members and associate members, including 9 King’s and senior counsel. Our members practice in jurisdictions across Australia in commercial, public, employment and criminal law. They include recognised experts in a range of specialist practice areas including commercial litigation, intellectual property, employment law, constitutional law, media law and regulatory proceedings.
Office locations
Sydney
Sydney
5 Wentworth Chambers 5 Wentworth Chambers, Level 5 180 Phillip Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Alexander Vial
Alexander maintains a national practice in complex commercial and regulatory matters. He is recognised by Legal500 as a Leading Junior (Band 1) for competition law (2024, 2025), as a Leading Junior (Band 1) for white collar and regulatory matters (2024 Rising Star, 2025), and a Leading Junior (Band 3) for commercial disputes. He is also recognised as “One to Watch in Australia” for competition law (2025, 2026) and commercial law (2026) by Best Lawyers. Alexander specialises in commercial and regulatory litigation that covers all areas of competition and consumer law, trade practices including franchising, class actions, insolvency, intellectual property, and employment law. Alexander regularly advises on and appears in regulatory investigations and enforcement matters, as has appeared in Royal Commissions and inquiries. Before being called to the Bar, Alexander was a Senior Associate at Clayton Utz in Sydney where he specialised in competition law, consumer law, regulatory investigations and litigation. Earlier in his career, Alexander served as the Associate to the Honourable Chief Justice Doyle AC of the Supreme Court of South Australia and, after his Honour’s retirement, the Associate to the Honourable Chief Justice Kourakis. Alexander’s education includes a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) with First Class Honours from the University of Adelaide. Alexander is a founding author of Zuckerman on Australian Civil Procedure, a leading text on Australian civil procedure that is now in its second edition. · Competition
Andrew Bulley
Commercial Litigation
Andrew Fox SC
Intellectual Property
Anna Elizabeth
Litigation
Ben Mee
Intellectual Property
Catherine Bembrick
Competition/Antitrust
Dale Bampton
Class Actions
Dan Fuller
Public Law
David Harris
Commercial Litigation
David Larish
Intellectual Property
Dominique Hogan-Doran SC
Litigation
Edward Thompson
Intellectual Property
Eliot Olivier
Commercial / Corporate
Gregory Burton SC
Commercial Litigation
Joseph Elks
Intellectual Property
Julian Cooke SC
Intellectual Property
Miles Foran
Employment
Phoebe Arcus SC
Intellectual Property
Robert Clark
Intellectual Property
Sam Hallahan
Intellectual Property
Sonia Stewart
Intellectual Property