Katrina Dawson, a 38-year-old barrister and mother of three from Sydney, Australia, tragically passed away in the early hours of December 16, 2014 during the Sydney siege.
Katrina Dawson was with fellow barrister Julie Taylor buying a coffee in the Lindt cafe when the gunman attacked.
Taylor and Dawson practised in the Eight Selborne chambers not far from the Lindt cafe.
Dawson was a highly regarded commercial barrister whose areas of practise included banking and insolvency law, commercial competition and consumer law, Corporations Law, Equity and Property.
She was the sister of prominent media barrister Sandy Dawson, and the daughter of McKinsey executive and a sculptor. Sandy Dawson recently represented Fairfax Media in its defamation case against the treasurer, Joe Hockey.
Katrina Dawson completed a law degree at the University of Sydney and a Masters in law at the University of NSW.
She was married to Paul Smith, a partner at Mallesons, whom she met while completing her clerkship at the firm.
Dawson had three children aged under 10 – two girls and a boy. The youngest, a girl, is four years old.
Dawson attended Ascham – a private girls school in Sydney’s east. She topped the state in the Higher School Certificate in 1994, with a TER of 100, and topped her bar exams.
In addition to her commercial practice, Katrina Dawson was a volunteer legal worker in Redfern.
Katrina Dawson was with fellow barrister Julie Taylor buying a coffee in the Lindt cafe when the gunman attacked.
Taylor and Dawson practised in the Eight Selborne chambers not far from the Lindt cafe.
Dawson was a highly regarded commercial barrister whose areas of practise included banking and insolvency law, commercial competition and consumer law, Corporations Law, Equity and Property.
She was the sister of prominent media barrister Sandy Dawson, and the daughter of McKinsey executive and a sculptor. Sandy Dawson recently represented Fairfax Media in its defamation case against the treasurer, Joe Hockey.
Katrina Dawson completed a law degree at the University of Sydney and a Masters in law at the University of NSW.
She was married to Paul Smith, a partner at Mallesons, whom she met while completing her clerkship at the firm.
Dawson had three children aged under 10 – two girls and a boy. The youngest, a girl, is four years old.
Dawson attended Ascham – a private girls school in Sydney’s east. She topped the state in the Higher School Certificate in 1994, with a TER of 100, and topped her bar exams.
In addition to her commercial practice, Katrina Dawson was a volunteer legal worker in Redfern.
Katrina Dawson, a 38-year-old barrister and mother of three from Sydney, Australia, tragically passed away in the early hours of December 16, 2014 during the Sydney siege.
Katrina Dawson was with fellow barrister Julie Taylor buying a coffee in the Lindt cafe when the gunman attacked.
Taylor and Dawson practised in the Eight Selborne chambers not far from the Lindt cafe.
Dawson was a highly regarded commercial barrister whose areas of practise included banking and insolvency law, commercial competition and consumer law, Corporations Law, Equity and Property.
She was the sister of prominent media barrister Sandy Dawson, and the daughter of McKinsey executive and a sculptor. Sandy Dawson recently represented Fairfax Media in its defamation case against the treasurer, Joe Hockey.
Katrina Dawson completed a law degree at the University of Sydney and a Masters in law at the University of NSW.
She was married to Paul Smith, a partner at Mallesons, whom she met while completing her clerkship at the firm.
Dawson had three children aged under 10 – two girls and a boy. The youngest, a girl, is four years old.
Dawson attended Ascham – a private girls school in Sydney’s east. She topped the state in the Higher School Certificate in 1994, with a TER of 100, and topped her bar exams.
In addition to her commercial practice, Katrina Dawson was a volunteer legal worker in Redfern.
Katrina Dawson was with fellow barrister Julie Taylor buying a coffee in the Lindt cafe when the gunman attacked.
Taylor and Dawson practised in the Eight Selborne chambers not far from the Lindt cafe.
Dawson was a highly regarded commercial barrister whose areas of practise included banking and insolvency law, commercial competition and consumer law, Corporations Law, Equity and Property.
She was the sister of prominent media barrister Sandy Dawson, and the daughter of McKinsey executive and a sculptor. Sandy Dawson recently represented Fairfax Media in its defamation case against the treasurer, Joe Hockey.
Katrina Dawson completed a law degree at the University of Sydney and a Masters in law at the University of NSW.
She was married to Paul Smith, a partner at Mallesons, whom she met while completing her clerkship at the firm.
Dawson had three children aged under 10 – two girls and a boy. The youngest, a girl, is four years old.
Dawson attended Ascham – a private girls school in Sydney’s east. She topped the state in the Higher School Certificate in 1994, with a TER of 100, and topped her bar exams.
In addition to her commercial practice, Katrina Dawson was a volunteer legal worker in Redfern.
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