Cameron Sweeney

Director

Bachelor of Jurisprudence (Honours)
Bachelor of Laws (UWA)

Cameron Sweeney graduated from Trinity College and studied Law at UWA, graduating with Honours before being admitted as a lawyer at the end of 1982.  Cam was awarded numerous academic prizes during high school and university. He excelled in the art of argument.  Law was an obvious choice for the winner (and Trinity team captain) of the WA Schools Debating Competition. At university, debating stepped up a level to “mooting”, which entailed arguing fictitious appeals before lawyers or judges.  Cam broke the stereotype by winning that competition in only his second year of law studies.

In his early career, Cam was the Associate to the late Sir Ronald Wilson of the High Court of Australia. Sir Ronald was the first-ever Western Australian to be appointed as a Justice of the High Court.  It was, in Cam’s words, “an amazing job” and set the tone for a future in litigation.

Throughout the 90s and 00s, Cam taught part-time at Murdoch University, guest-lecturing in Contract Law and tutoring in Property Law, Contract Law, Administrative and Constitutional Law and Civil Procedure and Evidence.

Other than the period during which he worked for Sir Ronald Wilson, Cam has spent his entire professional life working in private practice, concentrating largely on the fields of commercial litigation and real estate law.

Cam and his wife of 32 years, Sally, have 2 adult children. Outside of law, he is musically obsessed, loves history, politics, movies and literature and is a sports nut (principally football, cricket and soccer).  He clears his head with exercise, enjoying swimming, bushwalking and regularly climbing Jacob’s Ladder.

“I think WA is so blessed to have, in Kings Park, the Swan River and Middleton Beach, some of the most beautiful places on Earth”.