A partner since 1982, Ian practises in both the Property and Commercial Divisions of the Firm, with specialist focus on the rural area, particularly, Estate Planning, Rural Conveyancing and Water Rights.

Ian acts for a large number of pastoral organisations as well as individual primary producers.

Ian is a former member of the Rural Conveyancing Committee of the Law Society of New South Wales. He has also presented papers at Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) Seminars to NSW practitioners on rural land tenure issues and conveyancing. He has also been a visiting course leader at the College of Law for the Property Law Specialist Accreditation Training Program.

Ian Benecke
Email: ijb@ghb.net.au

Ian was awarded the 1989 Law Society Journal Writer’s Award for an article on Rural Conveyancing and Crown Land Conveyancing. Ian has made other contributions to the journal, concerned with Crown Land Titles legislation, Agricultural tenancy, Sharefarm Law and Water Rights. Ian has given reports and expert testimony in the Supreme Court of New South Wales regarding rural matters and solicitors’ practice generally.

Ian is the former author of the Butterworth’s Crown Lands Commentary and the Crown Lands forms and precedents guide in the Australian Encyclopaedia of Legal Forms and Precedents.

Date of Admission

1976

Qualifications

B.A. LLB. M. Com (University of New South Wales).