Areas of practice

  • Administrative

  • Arbitration, Mediation & Evaluation

  • Banking & Finance

  • Bankruptcy & Insolvency

  • Building & Construction

  • Commercial

  • Contract

  • Defamation

  • Equity

  • Franchising & Consumer Law

  • Industrial and Employment

  • Insurance

  • Mining, Energy & Resources

  • Professional Negligence

  • Property

  • Tort

  • Trade Practices & Competition

     

ANDREW SCRIIFFER

Phone: (07) 3333 9905 Mobile: 0413264824

Email: a.schriiffer@qldbar.asn.au

Andrew Schriiffer has a broad commercial practice. He appears predominantly in bankruptcy and insolvency matters, banking and finance matters, property disputes, business and contractual disputes, building and construction disputes, defamation, matters involving fraud and professional negligence claims.

Before coming to the Bar, Andrew practised as a solicitor in commercial litigation and insolvency for over six years at DLA Piper and McCullough Robertson. 

He had carriage of a wide range of disputes including private international law, cross-border insolvency, bankruptcy and insolvency matters, franchise disputes, directors’ duties, shareholder disputes, banking disputes, contractual disputes, trade practices and competition matters, urgent injunctions and equitable relief, asset preservation, mortgage enforcement, lease disputes and corporate regulatory investigations.

Andrew practised as a solicitor in Brisbane, Sydney and New Zealand.

Andrew regularly appears in the State and Federal Courts.  Recent examples include:

  • Churchill v Clearview Life Assurance Ltd [2023] QSC 225 (led by R Douglas KC)

  • Kea Investments Ltd v Wikeley (No 2) [2023] QSC 215 (led by D O’Sullivan KC)

  • McEwan v MacTaggart [2023] QCA 14 (unled)

  • Amory v RMS Engineering & Construction Pty Ltd [2022] FCA 1505 (led by B McMillan)

  • McEwan v Mactaggart [2022] QSC 258 (unled)

  • McEwan v The Commissioner of Taxation of the Australian Taxation Office and Ors [2022] QSC 81 (unled)

  • Mounsey trading as Creative Cabinets v Archer [2022] FedCFamC2G 315 (unled)

  • Canaipa Developments Pty Ltd v TLC Jones Pty Ltd [2021] QSC 237 (unled)

  • Flinstone Investments Pty Ltd v Champions Quarry Pty Ltd [2021] FCA 1522 (unled)

  • Cheshire Contractors Pty Ltd v Civil Mining & Construction Pty Ltd [2021] QCA 212 (led by M. Hindman QC (as her Honour then was))

  • Tuskbury Pty Ltd v Mt Isaac Pty Ltd [2021] QDC 057 (led by K. Downes QC (as her Honour then was))

  • Moreton Resources Ltd (in liq) & Ors v First Samuel Ltd & Ors [2020] QSC 339 (led by K. Downes QC (as her Honour then was))

Year of admission to the Bar: 2020