NAME: Robert Rainy Ian Harper
Date of Birth: 22 July 1959

EDUCATION:

Secondary: Sydney Grammar School 1966 to 1977
1976 - Prize for Classical Greek, Winner, Lawrence Campbell Oratory Competition
1977 - Second Prefect, Vice-Captain First XV, General Merit Prize

Tertiary: University of Sydney

1983 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (BA)
1985 Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
1997 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)


Career History
Robert Harper was employed from June 1984 to July, 1985 as Tipstaff/Associate to Mr Justice Cripps, Chief Judge of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court.
He was admitted to the Role of Barristers on 20 December 1985 and commenced practice in February 1986.
He appears mainly in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Federal Court of Australia and on occasion in the High Court of Australia.
He conducts a general commercial equity practice specialising in Banking, especially securities and negotiable instruments, Trade Practices, especially consumer law, such as misleading and deceptive conduct, International Transport, mainly shipping, especially areas involving charter parties, bills of lading, damage to cargo, interpretation of and application of international convention such as the Hague/Visby Rules, and Carriage by Air, Insurance, including Marine Insurance, Property, including leases and conveyancing litigation, specific performance of contracts, individual and corporate insolvency, Equity, especially corporations law, deceased Estates.

He has appeared as an expert witness on NSW law in the Supreme Court of Singapore.

He was appointed Senior Counsel for the State of New South Wales on 29 September 2004.

He currently serves on the Equity Division Liaison Committee of the Supreme Court of NSW.

Appointments:

1985 - Club Captain, Sydney University Rugby Club
1986 to 1993 Reporter for the New South Wales Law Reports.
1986 to 1987 assistant exam marker and lecturer to correspondence students in the BAB/SAB courses held by the Law Extension Committee of the University of Sydney.
2000 Adjunct-Lecturer in UniNSW Law School, teaching "Trial Process"
October, 1999 - CLE Paper on "Corporate Elections"
March, 2000 - CLE Paper on "Commercial Leases"; "Interlocutory Procedures" for NSW Bar Practice Course
2001 - Lecturer for Practice and Procedure in Bar Bar Readers Course.
2002 - Education Committee of the NSW Bar Association
2002 - Governor, and member of the Executive Committee of, the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
2003 - Chairman, Kudos Foundation
2005 - Chairman of Council, St Andrews College, University of Sydney
2006 - Appointed as an honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney
2008 - Occasional Address for Graduation Ceremony for the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, on 6 June 2008