Jeremy Cassrels

Jeremy brings 8 years’ experience in commercial litigation and dispute resolution. He has developed his skills at boutique firms, a national Australian law firm and an international law firm in London before joining Bartier Perry. 

Jeremy works with clients on complex, high profile, multi-billion dollar, and multi-jurisdictional disputes. His experience is broad, handling contractual disputes, company disputes, property litigation, insurance litigation, debt recovery, and insolvency and bankruptcy litigation.

He represents a diverse range of clients, from individuals to listed companies, government entities, company directors, shareholders, insurers, insureds, brokers, accountants, liquidators and administrators. 

 

Qualifications/Memberships

• Bachelor of Commerce (maj. Finance), Macquarie University

• Bachelor of Laws (Hons), Macquarie University

• Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice

• Admitted as a Lawyer of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

• Admitted as a Lawyer of the High Court of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia

• Member of the Law Society of New South Wales

 

A word from Jeremy

I enjoy getting into the detail and cutting quickly through complex factual and legal issues. I think critically, develop strategies, and create leverage to achieve the best possible outcome for clients.

 

Career highlights

• Acting for Cessnock City Council in the seminal High Court of Australia case Cessnock City Council v 123 259 932 Pty Ltd [2024] HCA 17. The case tested long-standing principles concerning compensation (or ‘damages’) at law and the extent to which wasted expenditure can be recovered by an innocent party in circumstances where it is difficult to ascertain what position that party would have been in had the contract been performed as promised.

• Acted for a war-risk insurer in a US $4.5 billion dispute concerning 147 aircraft and 18 engines that were stranded in Russia following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The case went to the High Court of England & Wales where complex issues of insurance coverage, causation, and policy interpretation were considered.

• Acted for a landlord in a 6-day NSW Supreme Court hearing in T & L Alexandria Pty Ltd v Sharvain Facades Pty Ltd [2023] NSWSC 947. The case concerned arguments about which party repudiated the lease, loss of bargain damages, and mitigation of loss.

• Acted for a protection and indemnity insurer in its investigation into the sinking of the sailing yacht the ‘Bayesian’ that tragically occurred off the coast of Sicily in August 2024. The matter required consideration of issues such as limitation of liability, jurisdiction and applicable law, and the potential liabilities for the vessel’s owner and manager.

• Acted for a landlord in a dispute with a well-known service station brand concerning petrol contamination of land.

• Defended a director in NSW District Court proceedings facing allegations they had been trading the company while insolvent.

• Acted for the purchaser of a property in the high-profile case of Kitanovski v Ibrahim [2022] NSWSC 1232. Sought specific performance for the sale and special orders for the removal of certain caveats which otherwise was preventing the transfer of the property to our client.

 

Specific areas of focus

• Dispute resolution & advisory

• Property litigation

• Insurance litigation

• Debt recovery

• Bankruptcy

• Insolvency

• Fraud & Corruption