Profile
Jill Hill is a member of Frederick Jordan Chambers. She has practised at the Sydney Bar for the last five years.
Current areas of practice
- Tribunals and administrative law, particularly the NSW Guardianship Tribunal
- disputed wills and Family Provision Act matters
- negligence and torts
- negotiations, mediation, precedents
- Trade Practices, competition and consumer law
Before her admission to the Bar, Jill was principal of a legal practice specialising in defending negligence claims on behalf of a large insurer. She maintains an interest in tort law.
Jill is a former Bankruptcy Editor of the Australian Insolvency Journal.
For many years Jill lived in country NSW. She was a partner in a large provincial law firm and, as a country lawyer, worked in many areas of general practice.
Her experience includes:
- negligence and tort law
- commercial law
- banking, consumer and credit law
- contracts
- debt collecting
- family law
- defamation
- disputed wills and Family Provision Act matters
- Local Government law
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rural property disputes - criminal law
Jill:
- co-authored the first training and standards manual for the Department of Consumer Affairs
- was a Parliamentary amenuensis
- worked on the editorial staff of a Sydney daily newspaper