Motor Vehicle

Gillian has practised in insurance law for 20 years and during this period has dealt with a wide variety of insurance policies including;

• public liability policies;
• commercial motor vehicle fleet and heavy equipment policies; and
• marine policies including hull and cargo, carriers’ legal liability and load policies and ship repairers’ policies.

Gillian has a special interest in transport law, both heavy road transport and maritime law.

Matters in which Gillian has been involved include advising insurers in relation to all aspects of insurance cover including;

• indemnity issues;
• issues of double insurance;
• drafting policy wordings for load and liability insurance; and
• recovery/subrogation actions on behalf of insurers.

As part of completing her Masters degree, Gillian undertook several research projects involving transport issues such as the use of exclusion clauses in the road transport industry, sub-bailment, marine insurance law reform and freight forwarding. Gillian has also published articles in the National Law Review, Macarthur Law Review and the Australian Business Law Review dealing with transport law.

Gillian has tutored in commercial law and torts law at Queensland University of Technology and has lectured in maritime law for the Centre of Maritime Law at the University of Queensland.
 

Quentin is a partner in Cooper Grace Ward’s Insurance team. Quentin is a specialist litigator with 30 years of legal practice as a litigator both as a Barrister and Solicitor. This includes nine years in criminal law as a Federal Crown Prosecutor and 21 years specialising in insurance matters.

Quentin advises clients in the following areas:

• General insurance including public liability, products liability, Body Corporate liability, arson and fraud claims, defamation, and Insurance Ombudsman references
• Recovery actions in a variety of matters, including in the cases of Nominal Defendant v Duntroon Holdings [2008] QCA 183, Nominal Defendant v Chaffey & Ors [2011] QSC 088 and Nominal Defendant v Buchan [2011] QSC 364.
• Professional indemnity
• Federal Workers’ Compensation.

Quentin also has a broad range of experience in a wide variety of matters including:

• Personal injuries claims
• Breaches of statutory duty
• Motor vehicle accident claims
• High level insurance related commercial litigation
• Compulsory third party (CTP)
• Arson and fraud matters.

He has advised and delivered papers on a variety of insurance related topics, and has also drafted a Motor Vehicle At Fault Insurance Policy for an insurance company. Quentin has conducted prosecutions successfully for the Motor Accident Insurance Commission.

He recently had one of his matters resolved for The Nominal Defendant in one of the largest amounts ever recovered upon a recovery action in Queensland.

In the 2008 Australasian Legal Business (ALB) Guide to Insurance Law, Cooper Grace Ward was ranked in the top leading three firms in Queensland in insurance law. The firm was recommended for an ability to produce quality results and is considered “ahead of the pack” in the Queensland Insurance Law Market. Quentin was praised for having “simply brilliant general insurance skills".

Quentin was named in the 2011 Chambers’ rankings as one of Australia’s leading lawyers in the Insurance division. Quentin was the only Queensland lawyer to be named in the Insurance Division of this prestigious list.