Justeen Dormer

Principal Lawyer

ABOUT JUSTEEN

Justeen Dormer began her career at Ashurst, a top tier law firm, where she built a strong foundation in complex dispute resolution. As Principal Lawyer and Director of Dormer Stanhope, she leads a boutique firm founded on a single principle: top tier legal expertise delivered with personal client service. Her career spans nearly three decades, and she brings the strategic depth usually associated with major national firms to a practice where clients deal with her directly. That is the Dormer Stanhope advantage. Clients get the rigour of a top tier lawyer with the hands on attention only a boutique firm can offer.

At Dormer Stanhope, the client and lawyer relationship comes first. Justeen leads a capable team of senior associates, graduate lawyers, paralegals, and expert consultants, including a former Ashurst Partner. Every matter receives her direct oversight and strategic input. Clients have the benefit of Justeen's experience from the first meeting through to resolution.

Justeen has practised across many areas of law, and that breadth shapes how she works today. Succession matters rarely sit in isolation. They carry tax, commercial, property, and family threads, and Justeen reads all of them. She has now focused her practice on succession law, and recently completed a Master of Laws (Applied Law) majoring in Wills and Estates and Estate Planning to formalise that focus.

CREDENTIALS

Qualifications and memberships

TRACK RECORD

Selected Cases

SELECTED CASES

Mackinlay v Holliday (No 2) [2023] NSWSC 1024
Mackinlay v Holliday [2023] NSWSC 949
Nelson v Health Care Complaints Commission (No 2) (Costs) [2023] NSWCATOD 93
Nelson v Health Care Complaints Commission [2023] NSWCATOD 5
JS and SD v Nationwide News Pty Ltd, Hornsby Local Court Unreported decision, Magistrate Denes, 17 December 2021, non-publication and suppression order for high-profile criminal case
In the matter of Pak Brothers Pty Ltd [2021] NSWSC 1247
Moriah War Memorial College Association v Augustine Robert Nosti [2020] NSWSC 942
Moriah War Memorial College v Nosti [2020] NSWSC 603
In the matter of Australian Worldwide Pty Ltd [2019] NSWSC 1475
Burton v Prior (No 2) [2019] NSWSC 518
Burton v Prior [2019] NSWSC 518
Australian Worldwide Pty Ltd v AW Exports Pty Ltd [2018] NSWSC 1632
In the matter of Australian Worldwide Pty Ltd [2017] NSWSC 1641
Turnbull v Turnbull [2017] NSWSC 1316
Cassaniti v Ruse NSW Pty Limited [2017] NSWSC 499
Cassaniti v Ruse NSW Pty Ltd [2017] NSWCA 285
Armstrong Strategic Management and Marketing Pty Limited v Expense Reduction Analysts Group Pty Ltd (No 10) [2017] NSWSC 16
Esplanade Wollongong Unit Trust v Chief Commissioner of State Revenue [2017] NSWCATAD 15
Mortimer v Lusink & Ors [2017] QCA 1
Armstrong Strategic Management and Marketing Pty Limited v Expense Reduction Analysts Group Pty Ltd (No 9) [2016] NSWSC 1005
Kaspersky Lab UK Ltd v Hemisphere Technologies [2016] NSWSC 147, stay application pursuant to section 7 of the International Arbitration Act 1974 (Cth) and request for arbitration pursuant to the Institute of Stockholm Arbitration Centre rules
Mortimer v Lusink & Ors [2016] QSC 119
Kafataris v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation [2015] FCA 874
R v Pratten (No 15) [2015] NSWSC 573
R v Pratten (No 14) [2015] NSWSC 457
Esplanade Wollongong Pty Limited v Commissioner of State Revenue [2015] NSWCATAD 228
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 17) [2015] FCA 72
LHRC v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (No 4) [2015] FCA 70
Channel Pastoral Holdings Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2015] FCAFC 57
LHRC v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation (No 3) [2015) FCA 52
Russell Gould Pty Ltd v Ramangkura (No 2) [2015] NSWCA 14
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 16) [2014] FCA 1407
Allan J Heasman Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2014] FCA 1282
McGrouther v Commissioner of Taxation [2014] FCA 1102
LHRC v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation [2014] FCA 388
Armstrong Strategic Management and Marketing v Expense Reduction Analysis Group [2013] NSWSC 1702
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 15) [2013] FCA 1124
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 14) [2013] FCA 1096
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 13) [2013] FCA 1095
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 12) [2013] FCA 1091
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 11) [2013] FCA 1055
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 9) [2013] FCA 1022
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 8) [2013] FCA 1021
Hua Wang Bank Berhad v Commissioner of Taxation (No 6) [2013] FCA 992
Armstrong Strategic Management and Marketing Pty Ltd v Expense Reduction Analysts Group Pty Ltd; Expense Reduction Analysts Group Pty Limited v Armstrong Strategic Management and Marketing Pty Limited [2012] NSWCA 430
Armstrong Strategic Management and Marketing Pty Limited & Ors v Expense Reduction Analysts Group Pty Ltd & Ors [2012] NSWSC 393