Gaire Blunt Scholarship

Matthew Eglezos is a Graduate at Freehills in Melbourne, currently rotating through the firm's Litigation practice group. He graduated in 2009 from Monash University with first class honours in Law and was awarded the Supreme Court Prize for Best Honours Student. Matthew was also a recipient of the Monash University National Scholarship for Excellence, was a member of the Monash University Law Review editorial committee, and was involved in national and international mooting competitions.

Matthew's Gaire Blunt Scholarship paper "Recovering Cartel Damages: the 'Passing-On' Defence Under the Trade Practices Act" is an edited version of a thesis he submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of his Law degree.

Daniel Clarry is a competition lawyer at the Office of Fair Trading in London. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from the University of Queensland in 2006 before working as an Associate to Justice Greenwood in the Federal Court of Australia. Following his time at the Federal Court, Daniel worked as a competition lawyer at the Australian Government Solicitor's office in Brisbane. He will read for a Master of Law at McGill University in Montreal from August 2010 before returning to Australia where he hopes to practice as a Barrister.

Daniel won the inaugural Gaire Blunt Scholarship in 2008 for his paper "Contemporary Approaches to Market Definition: Taking into account international markets under Part IV of the Trade Practices Act 1974". In his paper, Daniel considered the scope of Australian competition laws, and particularly the ACCC's power, to regulate competition in international markets. Daniel argued that an international dimension to contemporary market definition is now unavoidable and perspectives need to be adjusted to take into account this economic and commercial reality.