Nicholas Iles has practised commercial
litigation, both in Australia and England, for nearly 25 years.
Originally Articled at a predecessor firm to Piper Alderman,
he later spent ten years as a Partner in that firm’s
commercial litigation section, working closely with Charles
Bagot and Tony Abbott.
Between 1987 and 1990, he worked in London, first with Linklaters
& Paines (under Terence Kyle and Christopher Style) and
later in a specialist professional indemnity insurance firm,
Squire & Co, assisting the firm’s principal, Nick
Squire, in a range of financial services sector indemnity
matters, as well as acting for a Lloyd’s syndicate in
a trans-national reinsurance dispute.
Graduating with First Class Honours in law from both the Universities
of Adelaide (LL.B (Hons), 1984) and Cambridge (LL.M, 1987),
Nicholas is an Honorary Senior Scholar of Gonville & Caius
College, Cambridge. Before leaving for England, Nicholas was
the Research Assistant to the then Solicitor-General for South
Australia, Malcolm Gray QC (now Justice Gray of the ACT Supreme
Court).
With a strong reputation amongst his peers for the quality
of his work, Nicholas practises widely in commercial litigious
disputes, including contractual, company, partnership, general
tortious and public law matters. However, he maintains a keen
interest in professional indemnity litigation, being a panel
solicitor to the Law Society of South Australia’s Professional
Indemnity Insurance Scheme and a long standing advisor and
panel solicitor to South Australia’s leading medical
indemnity insurer, Medical Insurance Group Australia. In the
latter capacity, Nicholas has represented medical practitioners
in a wide range of medical malpractice and disciplinary matters
before the Medical Board, the Medical Practitioner’s
Conduct Tribunal and the Supreme Court of South Australia.
In each of the two major Royal Commissions in South Australia
in the 1990s - the State Bank Royal Commission and the Hindmarsh
Island Bridge Royal Commission - Nicholas worked closely with
Michael Abbott QC, with whom he worked again in the course
of the ten year Emanuel Group litigation, representing the
partners of a major Adelaide law firm. He has often acted
in litigation involving the local wine industry including
in GI matters and cork taint claims. More recently, he and
fellow partner, Grant Feary, have led the defence of the former
partners of Magarey Farlam Lawyers in the matter of a $4.5m
trust account defalcation. Nicholas has appeared or instructed
in every Court in South Australia, including in the High Court
of Australia in respect of two major constitutional challenges.
A member of the Council and Executive of the Law Society of
South Australia between 1996 and 2003, Nicholas was the Law
Society’s Treasurer in 2001-2. He spent eight years
on the Council of Anglicare SA through a period of rapid growth.
He remains a trusted legal advisor to the Adelaide Diocese
of the Anglican Church on a range of legal matters. He has
two teenage daughters and is married to an Anglican priest.
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