People

Laura Giaretto

Manager, Legal Services

Areas of Expertise:

• Legal advice
• Governance and delegations
• Contracts and agreements
• International contracts and agreements
• Policy review and advice
• Privacy
• Copyright

Contact Laura 

Edward Fortunatow

Legal Counsel

Areas of Expertise:

• Legal advice - trusts, bequests, estates
• Gift/Sponsorship deeds and contracts
• Contracts and agreements
• FOI

Contact Edward

Despina Anagnostou

Legal Counsel

Areas of Expertise:

• Legal advice
• Student Affairs liaison and support (student grievances and appeals, conduct, administrative decision making)
• Legislation review and legal compliance
• Disputes resolution and litigation management
• Contracts and agreements

Ben McKay

Legal Counsel

Areas of Expertise:

• Legal advice
• Contracts and agreements - procurement, facilities maintenance, infrastructure
• Copyright
• Privacy

Contact Ben

Debra Hassen

Legal Counsel (Defence and International Engagement)

• Strategic advice – Defence engagements
• Defence contracts & agreements
• Compliance & legal advice – international engagements

Contact Debra

Chris Morey

Legal Counsel (Employment & Industrial Relations)

Areas of Expertise:

• Employment law advice
• Specialised industrial relations advice
• Support to Human Resources on performance and misconduct matters
• Employment related disputes

Contact Chris

Jackie Morris

Senior Trusts and FOI Officer

Areas of Expertise:

• Management of University trusts and bequests database
• Annual Bequests and Trusts compliance certification
• Reporting of University's bequests
• Estates management
• FOI

Contact Jackie

Fabiano Santos

Trusts and FOI Officer

Areas of Expertise:

• Advice about FOI 
• Receive and consider FOI requests
• FOI determinations 
• Reporting on FOI matters
• Responding to external consultation on FOI
• Provide high level administrative advice and support to the Legal Services Branch generally, in particular in relation to the University’s Trusts and Bequests Governance framework 
• Maintain records and assist the Senior Trusts and FOI Officer with the administration, management and reporting of estate and trust matters.

Contact Fabiano

Research Legal Services 

Amela Barisic

Manager, Legal Services (Research and Commercialisation)

Portfolio:

• Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (R)
• Faculty of Sciences, Engineering, and Technology
  • School of Biological Sciences
  • School of Physical Sciences
• Environment Institute
• Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing

Contact Amela

Lisa Twigden

Legal Counsel (Research)

Portfolio:

• Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
• Robinson Research Institute
• Joanna Briggs Institute
• South Australian Immunogenomics Cancer Institute

Contact Lisa

Sarah Ward

Legal Counsel (Research)

Portfolio:

• Faculty of Sciences, Engineering, and Technology
  • School of Agriculture, Food and Wine
  • School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
• Waite Research Institute
• Laboratory Animal Services

Contact Sarah

Juliane Werther-Bontje

Legal Counsel (Research)

Portfolio:

• Faculty of SET
• Australian Institute for Machine Learning 
• Institute for Mineral and Energy Resources 
• Research Services including Grants
• Funding Agreements & collaborations
• Innovation & Commercial Partners
• Licencing & commercialisation
• ARC funding schemes

Contact Juliane

Ellaina Brooks

Legal Advisor (Research)

Portfolio:

• Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
• Non-Disclosure Agreements (all faculties)
• Adelaide Graduate Research School - student CCSP related enquiries
• South Australian Research and Development Institute
• Stretton Institute

Contact Ellaina

Sandra Lilburn

Manager, Compliance

Areas of expertise:

• Legal compliance advice
• Compliance notification and response management
• Legislation monitoring and information
• Policy review

Contact Sandra

Adam Jones

Manager, Insurance

Areas of expertise:

• Managing insurance contracts
• Reviewing and assessing legal liability in contracts and Deeds of Settlement
• Assessing and managing claims and investigations
• The annual review, placement and maintenance of the insurance program
• Executive and strategic support, training and mentoring on insurance matters or disputes

Contact Adam

Chung Ung

Project Officer, Risk Services

Areas of expertise:

• Executive and administrative support to Risk Services function
• Insurance program support
• Compliance training and awareness
• Branch communications

Contact Chung