Kate Haddock
Director and Chairperson

Kate Haddock has practised as an intellectual property lawyer since 1989 and is one of the founding partners of Banki Haddock Fiora, established in 1995. She advises and represents collecting societies and publishers in relation to all aspects of their business, including in particular copyright and competition law. She provides advice on all aspects of copyright management and transactions relating to dealings with copyright properties. In particular, she has close experience of all aspects of the legal issues facing collecting societies, including under competition legislation.

Kate also conducts litigation and manages disputes and enforcement proceedings relating to copyright and competition and consumer laws. She has extensive experience in the Copyright Tribunal of Australia in matters involving voluntary and statutory licences. Her clients include collecting societies, publishers and other companies with creative interests.

Kate has been included in the intellectual property section of the Best Lawyers of Australia list published by the Australian Financial Review, since 2009. Most recently, she has been noted as a Preeminent Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer and Leading Non-Contentious Intellectual Property Lawyer in the 2021 Doyles Guide.