David Levin QC

He practices generally in the construction area and has been involved in many infrastructure disputes in Victoria and elsewhere in Australia involving roads (including disputes over the $2bn Melbourne Eastlink freeway development), tunnels ($2bn Melbourne Citylink Burnley tunnel litigation), power stations (Loy Yang B and Hazelwood), road and rail bridges, railways (including the Victorian Fast Train project and the West Australian Mandurah Railway project), windfarms, offshore and onshore gas and oil wells (including a $2bn dispute relating to the incidence of Resource Rent Tax on the purchaser of gas from the Bass Strait offshore fields), major retail developments (including major developments in Melbourne and Geelong city centres)  and many multi-storey office buildings.  He has acted for many of the major construction and development companies in Australia including Grocon, Multiplex and Leighton.

For many years he was a director of Barristers Chambers Ltd and he also held positions on the committee of the Victorian Society of Computers and the Law and as chair.  For two years he was chair of the Victorian Bar Dispute Resolution Committee. 

He is currently:

(a)          a Victorian Bar representative on the Supreme Court TEC List Users Group.

(b)         a member of the LCIA and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators,

(c)          a member of the WIPO Domain Name Disputes Panel and a WIPO Neutral;

(d)         a Grade 1 Arbitrator accredited by the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia. 

(e)          For many years he has been an advocate member of the Legal Profession Tribunal, now the Legal Practice List of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT);

(f)          a member of the Victorian Bar Commercial Bar Association.