Ben Sandford
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
P: (07) 3007 3722 | E: bsandford@mahoneys.com.au
Key service areas
- Corporation, shareholder and partnership litigation;
- Planning and environment appeals and advice;
- Trusts, equity and fiduciary litigation;
- General commercial litigation, including contractual, real property, letting, commercial torts and defamation litigation;
- Corporate and personal Insolvency litigation;
- Building and Construction disputes, including payment disputes.
Qualifications & memberships
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Science majoring in biomedical physiology
- Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
- Admitted to practice in Queensland and the High Court of Australia
- Member, Queensland Law Society
- Member, Queensland Environmental Lawyers Association.
Recent experience
- Large scale development appeals before the planning and environment court regarding the construction of a mosque;
- Pursuing and resisting applications for summary judgment (as plaintiff and as defendant);
- Pursuing and resisting adjudication applications under the Building and Construction Industry Payments Act and Building Industry Fairness (Security of Payment) Act;
- Litigation against lenders for breaches of obligations under the banking code arising from improper lending;
- Litigation against financial planners for improper investment advice to the trustee of a self-managed superannuation fund;
- Applications to wind up a company on the just and equitable ground arising from failure to act in the interests of minority shareholders;
- Review of the ruling of a trustee in bankruptcy in relation to a creditor’s proof of debt;
- Commercial leasing disputes arising from insufficient make good at the conclusion of tenancy;
- Applying to dismiss an application to set aside a statutory demand;
- Appeals to the Court of Appeal in respect of the proper interpretation of the Property Occupations Act;
- Acting for both administrators and examinees in public examinations in respect of a companies affairs pursuant to the Corporations Act and Bankruptcy Act;
- Commercial list matters regarding contractual disputes;
- Defamation litigation relating to imputations arising as a consequence of the publication of defamatory matters through internet search engines and social media pages;
- Development appeal before the planning and environment court regarding modifications to a local heritage place;
- Public examinations into the affairs of companies in liquidation, including large corporate groups engaged in suspected illegal phoenix activity; and
- Acting for builders, principals and subcontractors on respect of disputes under the Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act, Building and Construction Industry Payments Act, and Building Industry Fairness (Security for Payment) Act.
