Silk: 2025
Call: 2009
Tel: +61 2 8227 4400
Email: neggo@universitychambers.com.au
Practice Areas
Daniel has a wide commercial practice which includes matters in bankruptcy (including cross-border bankruptcy), building and construction (including security of payment), contractual construction, corporate insolvency (including cross-border insolvency and voidable transactions), corporations, probate, professional liability, real property (including easements and proprietary estoppel), restitution, restraint of trade, statutory construction, and trusts and fiduciary duties.
Daniel was admitted as a legal practitioner in 1999 and worked for ten years as a solicitor in commercial and construction litigation before being called to the Bar in 2009. He took silk in 2025.
Cases of note:
- Claire Rewais and Osama Rewais t/as McVitty Grove v BPB Earthmoving Pty Ltd [2025] NSWCA 103 – statutory construction, contractual construction.
- Sprout Trading NSW Pty Ltd trading as Sprout Ag v PBH Trading Pty Ltd [2024] NSWSC 1647 – restraint of trade.
- The Property Investors Alliance Pty Ltd v C88 Project Pty Ltd (in liq) [2023] NSWCA 291 – contractual construction, creation of caveatable interests.
- Burrows v Macpherson & Kelley Lawyers (Sydney) Pty Ltd [2021] NSWCA 148 – costs recovery by self-represented solicitors, the “Chorley” exception.
- Richardson v Lindsay [2019] NSWCA 148 – estoppel.
- Cherry v Steele-Park [2017] NSWCA 295 – contractual construction.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB, University of NSW),
- Master of Laws (LLM, UNSW)
Publications
Injunctions: Law and Practice (with Jacobs and McCarthy), Thomson LawBook Co, 2003 (looseleaf).