The Honourable John Digby KC was appointed Chairman of the BCL Board in September 2021.

Whist at the Bar John built a reputation as a leading commercial barrister specialising in engineering and construction matters and appeared in numerous large and complex court proceedings and major arbitrations both in Australia and abroad.

John has served for more than a decade as a Director and the Treasurer of the Australian Academy of Law and is a past President of the Commercial Bar Association of the Victorian Bar. John served on the Executive of the Victorian Bar Council and was Chairman of the Victorian Bar in 2008-2009.

John came to the Bar in 1979 and was appointed Queens Counsel in 1993.  In 2012 John was appointed to the Supreme Court of Australia and having recently retired in 2021, John now undertakes Arbitration, Expert Evaluations and Mediation work.

Sam has a broad practice at the Bar and has extensive experience in a range of fields including banking and finance, corporations law, class actions, professional negligence claims and trade practice disputes.

Sam serves as Chair of the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner, and he was the President of the Victorian Bar Council from November 2022 until November 2023.

Sam came to the Bar in 2002 and was appointed Silk in 2019.

Michael appears in commercial and regulatory proceedings for and against government and leading corporations, and in a wide range of appeals (including in the High Court of Australia). He came to the Bar in 2005 and took silk in 2016.

Michael also serves as a Member of the Australian Government Takeovers Panel, on the Victorian Bar Council’s Audit Finance and Risk Committee and as a Director of the St Kilda Football Club.

He graduated from Oxford University (BCL), having attained first class honours at undergraduate level (BSc, LLB) in Australia. Before coming to the Bar, Michael practised in commercial litigation and competition law as a solicitor with Allens Arthur Robinson, and gained commercial experience in finance and corporate strategy with McKinsey & Company, international management consultants, and in computer software engineering at Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd (Nasdaq: ALDN).

Stewart came to the bar in 2002 and took silk in 2017.  He practises in complex commercial litigation matters, and has a broad appeal, trial and advice practice.  He is widely published in the area of corporate insolvency.

Stewart was the President of the Commercial Bar Association in 2022 and 2023, and is the former chair of its Insolvency Section.  He served on the Victorian Bar Council for four years (including a year as its Honorary Treasurer) and on the Bar’s Ethics Committee for seven years.

Georgina Costello KC appears in trials, appeals and judicial review applications in a broad range of areas, including property law, public law and class actions.

Georgina is a graduate of Melbourne University Law School (LLB Hons 1999) and was a property lawyer at Mallesons Stephen Jaques before coming to the Bar. Admitted to the New York Bar, Georgia has worked as a commercial litigator at US law firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver and Jacobson LLP in 2006/2007.  She has also worked at the World Bank in Washington DC and at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Italy, on matters related to fraud, misconduct and corruption investigations.

Georgina came to the Bar in 2003 and was appointed Silk in 2019.

Megan Tittensor is an experienced trial advocate and has appeared in all types of criminal matters and practices in quasi-criminal jurisdictions including disciplinary and tribunal matters, coronial inquests and royal commissions.

Megan appeared as junior counsel for the Managing Director of AWB in the AWB Royal Commission, and in subsequent civil penalty proceedings brought by ASIC.  More recently she was Counsel Assisting in the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants.

Megan came to the Bar in 2004 and was appointed Silk in 2020.

Ben practices in commercial law with experience in contract law, corporations law, all aspects of property law, the Australian Consumer Law, and equity and trust law.

Ben came to the Bar in 2007, having previously been a Senior Associate at Baker & McKenzie.

Catherine holds a first class honours degree in law, a master of laws and an MBA and has previously served as Managing Partner of the Melbourne office of Clayton Utz, a Commissioner of the City of Melbourne, a director of NAB, ASX, Orica and Victorian Funds Management Corporation, the Reserve Bank’s Payments System Board and AFIC and as Chair of the Australian Synchrotron and Federation Square.

Currently, Catherine is Chair of Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance and a Director of Export Finance Australia.

Mick has 40 years’ experience in finance, mergers and acquisitions, and senior management. Mick is commercially focused with experience across Chartered Accounting Firms, multinational and privately-owned organisations.

Mick was most recently the Chief Executive Officer and Advisory Board member of MRB House the family office of Michael Buxton and before that an Advisory Board member and Chief Financial Officer of MAB, a privately owned diversified Property Developer.

He has also held senior management positions at Armaguard, Linfox, CSR Emoleum and Mobil Oil.

Mick is a Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland.

Paul joined BCL as CEO and Managing Director in March 2018.

Paul has led large teams across a diverse range of industries ranging from large banks and government utilities to an ASX listed global technology company. He has over thirty years experience in improving the performance of these businesses through significant cultural and structural change combined with a focus on executing strategy.

Paul is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and FINSIA and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors course and the INSEAD AVIRA programme. He has a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from RMIT and an Executive MBA from the University of New South Wales.