Our team

Netta Goussac is a Special Counsel with Lexbridge Lawyers. She has worked as an international lawyer for over a decade, including for the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Australian Government’s Office of International Law. Her principal fields of expertise are international humanitarian law, international disarmament law, the international law on the use of force, international criminal law, and security and counter-terrorism law.

Netta has particular expertise in legal frameworks related to the development, acquisition and transfer of weapons. Netta has provided legal and policy advice related to new technologies of warfare, including autonomous weapons, military applications of artificial intelligence and cyber and space security. From 2010 to 2013, she participated in the negotiation of the 2013 Arms Trade Treaty, and subsequently worked to promote universal adherence to its standards.

A focus of Netta’s practice is supporting the implementation of international law through national legislation, policies, doctrine and training. She has provided technical, advisory and capacity-building services in the Pacific, in Asia and in Europe. She has also been an adjunct lecturer at the Australian National University College of Law Masters of Law programme.

Netta holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Australia (2006) and a Master of Laws specialising in international law from the Australian National University (2009).

Mark Jennings is a Special Counsel with Lexbridge Lawyers. He is a consultant with decades of experience in international law, specialising in trade and investment law.

Mark worked as the Senior Counsel (Assistant Secretary) in the Office of International Law at the Attorney-General’s Department for 16 years. He worked on many major international law matters during this time, including dispute settlement in the World Trade Organisation. He was a senior member of the legal teams representing Australia before the panels and the Appellate Body in US – Lamb, US – Offset Act (Byrd Amendment), EC – Export Subsidies on Sugar and Australia – Apples.

Mark led the taskforce in the Attorney-General’s Department coordinating the defence of Australia’s introduction of plain packaging for tobacco products in an arbitration commenced under Australia’s bilateral investment agreement with Hong Kong (Philip Morris Asia v Australia). This was Australia’s first investor-State dispute.

Before joining the Attorney-General’s Department, Mark also worked with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, both in Australia and abroad.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Queensland. He was admitted as a Barrister in New South Wales in 1992.

Mark is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Canberra.

Amy Elleway is a Special Counsel with Lexbridge Lawyers. She is a specialist legal consultant with 20 years of experience in regulatory design, reform and compliance.

Amy’s expertise in the development of complex regulatory and legislative frameworks is complemented by her experience managing multi party negotiations and whole-of-government legal policy reform programs across areas of trade and investment, maritime and aviation, and environment and climate change.

Amy’s recent experience has included national security reforms to the foreign investment regulatory framework, review of regulatory decision making processes under the Emissions Reduction Fund and the national review of the regulatory framework for the major Commonwealth owned airports under the Airports Act 1996.

Currently, Amy is leading the national review of regulatory frameworks for the development of the hydrogen industry.

Earlier in her career, Amy worked for the Attorney-General’s Department as a principal lawyer in a range of disciplines including Native Title, National Security and International Trade Law.

Amy brings to her legal practice her knowledge, perspective and experience as the owner and founder of Wild South Seafood. A company she developed on the principles of sustainability and has successfully grown into an innovative business model, doing things differently to address the challenges of our changing environment.