
David W Marks KC
David had a 10 year background working for a solicitors’ firm in the area of tax law, before being called to the Bar in 2000. David took silk in 2015.
David specialises in Australian tax law. His traditional Chancery practice acts in the areas of tax advice, tax appeals, companies, trusts, equity, insolvency, property & estates. He also appears and advises in corporate, commercial, professional negligence, and administrative law matters.
Areas of Practice

Tax and Revenue

Chancery

Commercial & Administrative

Professional Negligence

Trust & Estates

Opinions To Accounting Firms
Recent Cases
27 Jul 2023
Hennessy v State of Queensland (Queensland Health) (No 2)
Queensland Industrial Relations Commission
Industrial law - application to dismiss on public interest grounds
VIEW JUDGMENT30 Jul 2021
Schneider v Queensland Building and Construction Commission
Queensland Court of Appeal
Nature:
Contracts - when price due
View Judgment18 Dec 2020
Nendy v Armstrong
Queensland Supreme Court
Nature:
Proprietary estoppel; adverse possession
View Judgment
Publications and associations
David is active in professional associations, performing committee work, on technical tax matters and their disciplinary functions.
Most recently David has been recognised in Doyle’s Guide as:
Recent Publications
Tax Law, Public Trust and Confidence in the Australian Tax System
Paper for AIAL National 2023 - authors Matthew Paterson & David W Marks KC
Conference PaperBig Things in the Sea – Jointly written with Rachel O’Donnell
Paper for The Tax Institute's "State Taxes Conference", Darwin, 17 Jul 2023
Conference PaperDon’t believe all you read in an EM
An edited version appeared in 2023 WTB 28 [463], 7 July 2023
Don’t believe all you read in an EM