Rob Cumming
Rob Cumming | Barrister | Brisbane
After 35 years as a solicitor, Rob commenced practising as a barrister at the Queensland Bar in May 2017.
Rob specialises in a range of estate, trust and disability law issues. He is well versed in dealing with estate litigation, particularly family provision applications, construction, rectification and cy-près applications and solemn form proceedings. Similarly, he is very experienced in guardianship and administration matters and the special requirements for persons with a legal disability.
Rob successfully achieved Queensland Law Society Specialist Accreditation in Succession Law in 2005 and again in 2013 (being required to requalify after working as a Staff Officer with the Australian Army which included operational deployments to Egypt and Afghanistan).
Rob is a member of the Bar Association of Queensland Succession and Elder Law Committee having previously been a committee member of the Queensland Law Society Succession Law Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee and Succession Law and Elder Law Committees and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Queensland Branch). He has been named as a recommended counsel in Doyle’s Guide of Leading Wills & Estates Litigation Junior Counsel – Queensland 2018, 2019 and 2020.
He is a part time sessional member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
At the Bar, Rob will take briefs in relation to all aspects of estate litigation and succession law advice, all aspects of guardianship and administration matters in QCAT and the courts, all aspects of applications requiring the Supreme Court to exercise its parens patriae jurisdiction, and general trust advice and litigation.
He will also act as mediator in relation to estate, trust and disability law disputes.
CONTACT
T. 07 3012 7511
M.0410 474 277
E. rdcumming@qldbar.asn.au
L. Level 19
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Administrative
Equity
Inquests, Commissions of Inquiry & Statutory Tribunals
Wills, Probate & Family Provision
YEAR OF ADMISSION
2017