Monique Papas

Monique is a senior associate in Lander & Rogers' Insurance Law & Litigation team. She acts for local and international insurers, and corporate insureds in the private and public sectors across a range of Australian and overseas jurisdictions.

Experience

Monique has extensive experience in litigation, having practised in both general insurance and commercial disputes. She now specialises in insurance litigation, advising her clients on a range of matters, including complex public liability, property damage and professional liability claims. She also has experience advising insurers on a range of complex indemnity disputes, on various policy types.

Monique's areas of expertise include:

• public liability, including personal injury, property damage and product liability
• professional negligence, including for health professionals, gyms and personal trainers
• policy coverage
• general and commercial disputes.

Monique's experience includes acting for:

• owners and occupiers of commercial premises, including major national retailers, in claims involving injuries to patrons and contractors
• non profit organisations in public liability claims
• gym owners, occupiers and personal trainers in public liability and professional negligence claims
• strata committees in claims by lot owners arising from common property issues
• major construction contractors in worker to worker injury claims on major projects
• corporate officers and boards on governance matters
• large corporations on disputed contractual rights and obligations.

Career highlights

Monique's career highlights include:

• T2 (by his tutor T1) v State of New South Wales [2024] NSWSC 1347: Acted for the defendant, the State of NSW throughout the course of a nine-day hearing in the Supreme Court of NSW, in relation to a claim for personal injury due to an alleged assault at a state high school in 2018
• advising and acting for a major insurance company on an internal review and subsequent appeal of an ASIC decision in relation to an industry funding levy
• advising former directors of a well-known company in defence of an ASIC prosecution for alleged insolvent trading and in relation to coverage issues in respect of claims for indemnity under their Directors and Officers Liability Insurance policy
• acting for one of Australia’s largest commercial trade tool retailers in strategic Supreme Court proceedings against a competitor for its alleged misuse of confidential information relating to its commercial terms of trade with suppliers, and discounts, promotions and marketing strategies
• Alamin v Islam [2023] NSWSC 701: Acting for the defendant, Hamidul Islam in the defence of an application for mandatory injunctive relief for rectification of a settlement deed and release of a charge over shares or a declaration the deed was void ab initio by reason of mistake, successfully resulting in the application being dismissed with indemnity costs.
• Alamin v Islam [2023] NSWCA 326 (20 December 2023) (White JA and Simpson AJA): Acting for the respondent, Hamidul Islam in the defence of an application for leave to appeal the decision of Slattery J in Alamin v Islam [2023] NSWSC 701 refusing mandatory injunctive relief, successfully resulting in the application for leave being refused with costs.