JASON WARD
Areas of Practice
Corporations & Insolvency
Equity & Trusts
General Commercial (inc Contract, Restitution & Misleading Conduct)
International (inc Solomon Islands and South Pacific)
Partnership Law & oppression of Minorities
Real property (Inc Specific Performance, Caveats, Easements)
Wills & Estates
Curriculum Vitae
Contact Details
Phone: 07 3211 4736
Email: jrward@qldbar.asn.au
Reception: 07 3333 9921
Jason holds a Master of Laws (LLM), Graduate Diploma and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from QUT as well as Bachelor of Professional Studies (UNE) and a Graduate Diploma in resource Management (DofD).
Jason was admitted as a solicitor in 2007, practicing in a mid-sized Queensland (now national) firm before being called to the private Bar in 2009 where he continues to practice.
While primarily practicing in the District and Supreme Courts of Queensland, Jason has appeared in most Australian jurisdictions and since 2013 has appeared internationally in the Solomon Islands including appearing successfully unled in the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal.
Jason’s substantive practice includes appearing in complex commercial contract including multi jurisdiction legal issues, shareholding and derivative proceedings and corresponding oppressive conduct cases as well as matters in restraint of trade, issues of statutory and contractual construction and real property claims. He has also appeared in various tax appeals before the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia and advised as to matters of trust administration and fiduciary duty.
His applications practice regularly includes the seeking of and resisting of freezing orders, the appointment of receivers and statutory trustees, the setting aside of statutory demands and the converse winding up of companies, the appointment of statutory trustees for sale of land. He has successfully appeared in urgent injunction proceedings resulting in the exclusion of individuals from business premises and the delivery up and possession of land.
He was a member of the Bar Association of Queensland General Litigation (Practice & Procedure/Insurance Law/Personal Injuries) Committee from 2014 to 2020.
He has and continues to present and teach on issues of evidence on the Queensland Bar Practice Course as well as delivering professional papers including on topics of pleading of causation in reliance upon counterfactual scenarios and the operation of s100A of the ITAA 1936. He is the co-author of the text Civil Procedure in the Solomon Islands, Reed International Books, 2020.
Jason also has an interest in sport and sports law having served as the legal counsel of the Australian Weightlifting Federation (AWF) and Queensland Weightlifting Association (QWA). He has appeared at the Queensland Rugby League tribunal and sat as a member of both the Greater Brisbane Junior Rugby League (GBJRL) and the Brisbane Junior Rugby Union (BJRU) judiciary. He also coaches both rugby union and weightlifting.
Before coming to the law, Jason served in the Australian Army from 1990 - 2004. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College – Duntroon and served as an infantry officer on operations as a Captain in Bosnia Herzegovina and as a Major in Timor Leste before retiring in 2004.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation