Angela Liaskos is a Special Counsel at HWL Ebsworth, with broad experience in commercial, contractual, property and estate dispute resolution. Angela works with private clients, corporations, health boards and charities in a wide range of disputes litigated through both formal court proceedings as well as alternative resolution processes such as mediation.
Angela specialises in deceased estate disputes, contests and challenges. She has acted for executors, administrators and beneficiaries of estates, as well as claimants seeking family provision. Angela has provided extensive assistance to a number of charities on a pro bono basis, including the Australian Red Cross Society, The National Heart Foundation of Australia, The Salvation Army and the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation to name a few.
Expertise
Experience
- family provision claims Prosecuting and defending family provision claims against estates.
- client Successfully propounding a Will the subject of a testamentary capacity challenge with evidence of instructions from the deceased by video footage, in The Will and Estate of Kalliopi Siapantas [2023] VSC 125.
- charitable beneficiaries Acting for charitable beneficiaries successfully advocating in favour of a particular binding death benefit nomination, in Re Rentis Pty Ltd [2023] QSC 252.
- charities Applying for Cy Pres relief for charities seeking approval to apply funds conditionally gifted to them in a different way than prescribed by the Will.
- client Applying for orders seeking the revocation of a grant of probate in respect of a penultimate Will in circumstances where a later Will was discovered (and contested) by family members of a deceased.
- former director Acting for a former director in relation to a compulsory examination under section 19 of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001.
- tenant Acting for a tenant successfully enforcing specific performance of its Tamworth motel lease against its defaulting landlord, as well as the successful enforcement of a judgment debt against the landlord via an interstate garnishee order.
- senior counsel Instructing and assisting senior counsel in proceedings relating to the rescission of a contract of sale of a multimillion-dollar Portland development site.
- Various clients Advising the Pharmacy Board of Victoria, the Veterinary Practitioners Registration Board of Victoria and the Australian Association of Social Workers in relation to investigations and administrative disciplinary proceedings against practitioners.
- Various clients Acting in Supreme Court proceedings relating to the rescission of a contract of sale of a multimillion-dollar development site, and a subsequent appeal.