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Our Staff

Tottle Partners recruit and retain outstanding lawyers and support staff.

Partners
Senior Associates
Solicitors and Consultants

Our Staff

Paul Tottle
Partner ptottle@tottle.com

Areas of Specialisation

Dispute resolution and advisory work to business in the areas corporate, contractual, trade practices, resources, media / intellectual property.
Health law/professional indemnity (medical) claims.
Business/partnership dissolution and insolvency issues.
Regulatory/administrative law.

Notable Assignments

  • Acts in landmark litigation concerning the duties owed by gambling enterprises to their clients.
  • Acts for the world's largest refiner of aluminium in relation to environmental issues.
  • Acted in litigation concerning the efficacy of therapeutic products.
  • Acts in cross border litigation for Singaporean interests regarding investments in Indonesia and Canada.
  • Provides pre-publication advice to Nine Network and acts for it in defamation and related litigation.
  • Acts in directors' misfeasance action.
  • Acts for the Medical Board in disciplinary inquiries and appeals to the Supreme Court.
  • Acts for the Legal Practitioners Complaints' Committee in inquiries and appeals to the Supreme Court.
  • Acts for the Real Estate and Business Brokers Supervisory Board in inquiries and appeals to the Supreme Court.
  • Acts for a range of state statutory tribunals concerned with the regulation of professions.
  • Acts for Medical Defence Association.
  • Acts for major accounting firms and law firms in relation to partnership issues.
  • Acted for major partner/shareholder in litigation leading to dissolution of partnership in major property development/construction business.
  • Acted for successful parties from the Federal Court to the High Court in litigation concerning the valuation of commercial opportunities: Sellars v Adelaide Petroleum.
  • Acted in litigation between major national businesses with competing claims to trade marks, business names and copyright in logos.
  • Appeared for former State Premier before Royal Commission.
  • Acted for Australian Stock Exchange in relation to internal disciplinary matters.

Other Experience

  • Included in Australian Legal Business's "Legal Who's Who" (compiled following a survey of the profession) as "an exceptional performer" in the field of litigation/dispute resolution in Western Australia
  • Ranked no 2 in Business News Survey of insolvency lawyers in Western Australia
  • Former Chairman, Stuart Petroleum Ltd (listed oil and gas explorer and producer)
  • Former elected member of the Legal Practice Board and Council of the Law Society of Western Australia
  • Former partner, Clayton Utz
  • Former partner, Knapp Fishers, London

Memberships

  • Convenor Law Society's Defamation Law Reform Committee
  • Co-opted member Law Society's Limitation of Liability Law Reform Committee
  • International Bar Association member

Qualifications

Solicitor - England & Wales - 1981
Barrister & Solicitor - Western Australia - 1986