OVERVIEW
Dr Katter was called to the Bar in 2001, after admission as a solicitor in 1998. Dr Katter is particularly experienced in complex resource, infrastructure, construction and revenue litigation and arbitrations.
Dr Katter is a mediator, accredited by the Resolution Institute.
Since 2015 he has been on the Panel of Arbitrators (Secondary) of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.
Since 2005 he has been a building and construction industry payments adjudicator as to Queensland and is a Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors panel senior adjudicator as to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, the Northern Territory, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania. He is on the Resolution Institute panel as to Tasmania and is a panel member and Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Construction Adjudicators.
Prior to commencing as a Barrister, he was articled at Corrs Chambers Westgarth Lawyers, was the Research Officer to the Court of Appeal of Queensland and the Associate to the Honourable Justice I. D. F. Callinan AC of the High Court of Australia.
Dr Katter is a graduate of Cambridge University where he was a Wakefield Scholar, an alumni of the Harvard Business School and the Yale School of Management, was awarded the Clive Gard Scholarship by the Harvard Club of Australia and has a doctorate in law.
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
BA(Government), LLB, LLM(Qld); MPhil(Cantab); SJD(QUT)
GDipMilLaw(Melb); GDipAdvMilLaw(Merit)(ANU); psac
PLDA(Harv); YGELP(Yale)
FCIArb, FSIArb, FHKICAdj, PRIMed,Adj
Admitted as a solicitor, Queensland: 1998
Admitted as a barrister, Queensland: 2001
Registered Foreign Lawyer (Singapore International Commercial Court)
Individual with right of audience (Part II) (The Dubai International Financial Centre Courts)
Barrister (Queensland and the High Court of Australia)
Barrister and Solicitor (Victoria and New Zealand)
Legal Practitioner (New South Wales, Western Australia, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory)
Lawyer (Papua New Guinea)
Legal Practitioner (Solomon Islands)
J.P. (Qualified) (Queensland)
Hong Kong:
HKICAdj, Panel of Adjudicators
HKIAC, Panel of Adjudicators
United Kingdom:
UK Adjudicators – Adjudication Panel
Queensland:
Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act 2017 (Qld) – Queensland Building and Construction Commission, Grade 2 Adjudicator
Tasmania:
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2009 (Tas)
RICS: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – Senior Adjudicator, Adjudication Panel
Resolution Institute – Adjudicator, Adjudication Panel
Northern Territory:
Construction Contracts (Security of Payments) Act 2004 (NT) – Northern Territory Construction Contracts Registrar, registered adjudicator 59
RICS: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – Senior Adjudicator, Adjudication Panel
Australian Capital Territory:
Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Act 2009 (ACT)
RICS: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – Senior Adjudicator, Adjudication Panel
New South Wales:
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW) – NSW Fair Trading
RICS: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – Senior Adjudicator, Adjudication Panel
South Australia:
Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 2009 (SA)
RICS: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors – Senior Adjudicator, Adjudication Panel
AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Administrative
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Arbitration
- Banking & Finance
- Building & Construction
- Commercial
- Commissions of Inquiry
- Competition & Consumer Law
- Contract
- Corporate Insolvency & Bankruptcy
- Disciplinary Proceedings
- Equity
- Government
- Insurance
- Judicial Review
- Maritime
- Mediation
- Medical Negligence
- Migration
- Professional Liability
- Property
- Sport
- Tax
- Trusts
- Wills & Probate