Ian Nosworthy
BA LLB FIAMA FCIArb AIPM
Ian Nosworthy was admitted to practice in South Australia in 1968 and has more than 40 years experience in legal practice.
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Telephone (international): +61 8 8100 2100
Facsimile (international): +61 8 8227 1911
Email: lawyer@nospart.com.au
Address
Roper Street Chambers
21 Roper Street, Adelaide
South Australia 5000
Australia
Ian was the youngest equity partner at Thomson & Co when that firm dissolved in 1972. He became a Founding Partner and the Managing Partner of Ross McCarthy & Nosworthy (now Phillips Fox) until he joined Finlaysons in 1989. Ian established Nosworthy Partners in 1993. He has had wide exposure as solicitor and counsel to insurance and civil litigation of all types, and has conducted numerous large and landmark cases.
Ian has acted in numerous city building disputes including the REMM Myer Centre dispute and other major building disputes Australia-wide. He has acted for (and against) every major insurer in Australia and has an Australia-wide and international reputation as an able litigator, arbitrator and mediator.
Ian has degrees in Law and Arts from the University of Adelaide. He is a Grade 1 Arbitrator and a Past President of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (IAMA). With Sir Laurence Street, he led the Commercial Dispute Resolution Section of the Australian Legal Services Mission to Malaysia in 2003 and to China (Beijing and Shanghai) in 2006. Ian was honoured as a Life Fellow of IAMA in 2008.
For many years Ian was a member of the LEADR Advanced Panel of Mediators, and he is a Chartered Arbitrator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is admitted to legal practice in the Northern Territory, New South Wales and Victoria. He is a Life Member of LawAsia and a past Chairman of the South Australian Law Society LawAsia Committee.
Ian is the Honorary Solicitor for and a Life Member of Gymnastics SA.
Ian is also the Treasurer of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, and a long time member of its Executive.
Ian has extensive experience as an advocate, arbitrator and mediator, both in arbitration and the courts, especially in the areas of insurance law, and building, construction and engineering contracts and disputes, professional and partnership disputes and personal injury claims. He has written and spoken widely on these topics, and copies of his papers appear at current legal topics.