Admissions and Appointments
- Admitted as a Barrister: 2018
- Admitted as a Solicitor: 2014
Degrees and Qualifications
- Master of Health Law (USyd)
- Bachelor of Laws (USyd)
- Bachelor of Arts (USyd)
e: holcombe@pghelychambers.com.au p: +61 2 9224 9724
Kate had a broad commercial law, common law and white collar crime practice. Kate is regularly briefed in employment disputes, including restraint of trade and confidential information matters, medical negligence claims, liquidator claims and coronial inquests, and appears (led and unled) in the NSW Supreme Court, Federal Court, NSW District Court and the Coroner’s Court of NSW.
Kate acts for a broad range of clients, including private and public companies, insurers, government agencies and financial service entities.
Before being called to the Bar, Kate was a solicitor in the Dispute Resolution team at King & Wood Mallesons, where she worked on financial regulatory, commercial, class action and pro bono health law matters across a range of courts and tribunals. Kate was also Associate to the Hon Justice Payne of the New South Wales Court of Appeal from March 2016 to June 2017.
Areas of Practice
- Commercial and Corporate Law
- Equity
- Health Law
- Employment Law
- Restraints of Trade
- Inquests and Inquiries
- Financial Services and Product Regulation
- White Collar Crime
Articles, Cases & Publications
A selection of Kate’s cases include:
Williamson v Debney [2023] NSWSC 783
Singh v Carroll and Ors [2023] NSWSC 245
Inquest into the death of Kai McEwan [2022] NSWCorC
MF Lady Pty Ltd (Trustee) v Henry Morgan Limited [2022] FCA 978 (led by J Hynes)
Inquest into the death of Jack Loh [2021] NSWCorC 78 (led by K Richardson SC)
DSHE Holdings v Abboud [2021] NSWSC 673 (led by RM Foreman SC)
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited v James [2021] FCA 768 (led by J Stoljar SC)
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited v James (No 2) [2021] FCA 784 (led by J Stoljar SC)
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited v James (No 3) [2021] FCA 788 (led by J Stoljar SC)
TP ICAP Management Services (Australia) Pty Ltd v Howell; GFI Australia Pty Ltd v Cotton [2021] NSWSC 656 (led by JJ Fernon SC and RM Foreman SC)
James v Merryweather [2021] NSWSC 387
Shelteo Pty Ltd v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited [2021] NSWSC 224
James v Australian and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (No 2) [2020] FCA 663 (led by J Hynes)
James v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd [2020] NSWCA 101; [2019] NSWCA 70 (led by RM Foreman)
ICAP Australia Pty Ltd v Howell (No 2) [2019] NSWSC 1061 (led by RM Foreman)
ICAP Australia Pty Ltd v Howell [2019] NSWSC 1024 (led by RM Foreman)
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd v James (No 2) [2019] NSWSC 59 (led by RM Foreman)
Frangie v South Western Sydney Local Health District trading as Liverpool Hospital [2019] NSWDC 42 (led by A Horvath)
Selected Publications
K Boyd, ‘Declaring dividends: lessons from Dick Smith’ (2021) 81 Law Society Journal 74-75 (with RM Foreman SC and J Entwisle)
K Boyd, ‘Accounting for the ‘wholesale plundering’ of a business’ (2018) 51 Law Society Journal 90
K Boyd, ‘Reproductive Autonomy and Social Sex Selection: A Chance of a Choice?’ (2018) 25(4) Journal of Law and Medicine 1106
K Boyd, ‘Compensation for your boss’s decisions at work? Comcare v Martin‘ (2017) 25(1) Australian Health Law Bulletin 8
K Boyd, ‘Responding to and preventing family violence: The need for a comprehensive and integrated system’ (2016) 116 Human Rights Law Centre Rights Agenda 26
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