Admission: 1988
Call: 2006
Silk: 2011
Personal assistant:
Jacqueline McLeod
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE:
Brahma Dharmananda SC practises in commercial litigation. He appears in the superior courts, the appeal courts and in arbitrations. Brahma has appeared in a number of leading High Court cases. He has been recognised by independent publications as the “Market Leader” or as “Pre-eminent”, and for his work in “Bet-the-Company Litigation”.
Before his practice as an independent barrister, Brahma worked at Mallesons Stephen Jaques. Brahma was admitted as an equity partner of Mallesons in 1994, at the age of 29. In 1989/90, Brahma worked in Mallesons’ New York office.
Brahma has a Bachelor of Jurisprudence with First Class Honours; and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from UWA. He was the top of his LLB class. He was awarded the H.C.F. Keall Prize in Law; and the David De Barron Cullen Prize in Mercantile Law. Brahma also has a BCL from Oxford.