Lisa Valentine
SPECIAL COUNSEL
P: (07) 3007 3723 | E: lvalentine@mahoneys.com.au
Key service areas
- Building and construction
- Regulatory complaints and investigations
- Administrative law and challenges to decisions made by public bodies
- Shareholder and partnership disputes
- Defamation
- Mediations and ADR
Qualifications & memberships
- Bachelor of Laws
- Bachelor of Arts
- Admitted to practice in Queensland and the High Court of Australia
- Member, Queensland Law Society
Recent experience
- advising one of Queensland’s largest statutory bodies on:
- all contested court/tribunal matters and ADR within Australia and internationally;
- dealings with regulatory agencies;
- complex legislative compliance issues; and
- challenges to decisions by way of judicial review or similar legal processes
- acting for a Queensland-based building group in longstanding multi-party review proceedings against the building regulator that led to the regulator’s decision being set aside
- acting in various complex and high value building and construction matters including defect claims and security of payment disputes
- representing an international fast food franchise in a longstanding lease dispute involving a marquee restaurant on the Gold Coast including three successful interlocutory applications, success at first instance and on appeal
- acting in the team that represented one of Queensland’s largest insurers on their response to the 2011 Queensland floods and the subsequent Commission of Inquiry
