Hannah Lilley

Hannah’s practice focuses on commercial litigation and arbitration.

Since coming to the Bar in 2021, Hannah has been instructed in a wide range of commercial disputes including those concerning contracts, corporations, equity, misleading and deceptive conduct, banking and insolvency, consumer protection, building and construction (including security of payment), large infrastructure disputes, franchise disputes, insurance and property law. She appears both led and unled in all State and Federal courts and has experience in urgent and injunctive matters.

Hannah is very familiar with heavy and complex litigation and arbitration. She draws on seven years’ experience working as a solicitor, initially at Allens in Brisbane and most recently as a Managing Associate at Linklaters LLP in London. During her time in London, Hannah acted in arbitrations and High Court litigation, including in relation to contracts, corporations, oil and gas, construction, competition and banking and insolvency litigation, and contentious regulatory investigations.

In addition to having been a solicitor, prior to commencing at the Bar, Hannah was an Associate to the Honourable Justice Patrick Keane AC in both the Federal Court of Australia and in the High Court of Australia in 2013-2014. She holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the Queensland University of Technology and is also admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.


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