Craig Terrill

Background

Few details of Craig Terrill's early life are documented. He attended Xavier College in Melbourne before studying law at the University of Melbourne.

Melbourne, the capital of the Australian state of Victoria, provided the setting for his education and legal career. The Law Institute of Victoria, the state's professional association for solicitors, was founded there in 1859 by a group of 26 solicitors and later became the regulating body for the Victorian legal profession.

Education

Craig Terrill attended Xavier College in Melbourne, a Jesuit school founded in 1878.

He then studied at the University of Melbourne, where he obtained a Bachelor of Laws. Founded in 1853, the university was the first established in Victoria and the second in Australia, and it became a leading centre of legal education in the state.

He was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1983, completing the transition from legal study to professional practice.

Career

Craig Terrill was admitted to the bar in Victoria in 1983 and has specialised in insurance law since the early 1980s. His career included a period practising in London in the professional indemnity area from 1989 to 1990.

He worked as a partner of Phillips Fox, a national Australian law firm that operated under the collective name Phillips Fox from 1985 to 2006 and was described as the first national law firm in Australia. The firm was later absorbed by the global firm DLA Piper, which opened for business in Australia in 2011.

He is a partner in the Melbourne office of Wotton Kearney, an insurance and risk law firm founded in 2002 by David Kearney and Phillip Wotton in Sydney. The firm began as a general partnership called Wotton + Kearney and was restructured under the Wotton Kearney name in 2019. His matters have included policy advice to insurers in connection with the Westpoint Financial collapse, representing engineers in a claim concerning a major pedestrian bridge between Melbourne and the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and advising an environmental expert on site contamination relating to the West Gate Bridge.

He is also principal of Terrill and Holmes, a Melbourne firm specialising in insurance law. His liability practice ranges from representing shopping centres and cleaning companies in slip-and-trip claims to catastrophic injury claims, including a major class action arising from the Black Saturday bushfires near Beechworth.

Membership

Craig Terrill was a founding committee member of the Australian Professional Indemnity Group, an industry body for professional indemnity insurance practitioners. He is also a member of the Australian Insurance Law Association, an association of insurance law practitioners in Australia.

His other memberships include the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance, a professional body for the insurance industry founded in Melbourne in 1884, and the Law Institute of Victoria, the professional association for solicitors in Victoria.

• Founding committee member

  Australian Professional Indemnity Group , Australia

• Australian Insurance Law Association , Australia

• Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance , Australia

• Law Institute of Victoria , Australia

References

• Craig Terrill - Wotton Kearney team profile Firm profile describing his specialisation in insurance law, his London professional indemnity practice from 1989 to 1990, his Melbourne partnership and his professional memberships.
• Craig Terrill - Terrill and Holmes profile Profile describing his insurance law practice, professional indemnity and directors and officers work, and memberships of professional bodies.