David Lloyd SC

David came to the New South Wales Bar in 2008. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2020.

He has conducted hundreds of trials in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Federal Court of Australia. He has also conducted trials in most superior Courts throughout Australia.

He has conducted more than one hundred appeals mainly in the Court of Appeal of New South Wales and Full Federal Court of Australia. He has also conducted appeals in Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the High Court of Australia.

David is recognised by the Doyle’s Guide to the Legal Profession as the market leader senior counsel in the area of professional indemnity. David has acted for (and against) most insurers in the Australian market, across a range of lines of insurance.

He has a significant aviation practice. He acted for Malaysian Airlines in a number of cases arising from the MH17 and MH370 disasters, and regularly appears for international and domestic carriers.

David regularly acts for the State of New South Wales and the Commonwealth.

David also appears regularly at Inquiries, Royal Commissions and Inquests. He was counsel assisting in a number of case studies in the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse (including at the public hearings into Knox Grammar School, Geelong Grammar School, Trinity Grammar School and The Kings School). He has acted for parties in the Royal Commissions into Banking, Aged Care, Disability and Antisemitism. He was senior counsel in the Special Commission of Inquiry into offending by former corrections officer Wayne Astill at Dillwynia Women’s Corrections Centre.

Prior to coming to the Bar, David was a solicitor for nine years, first at Minter Ellison and then as a partner in a boutique litigation firm.

If you would like a list of the cases in which David has appeared, please contact his PA, Kathryn Zappia.