Malcolm Bruce Oakes SC (1949-2023)

21/11/2023

Vale

Malcolm Oakes, head of Tenth Floor Chambers, passed away yesterday, 20 November 2023.

Malcolm attended Lismore High School and then the University of Sydney Law School, where he was a resident of St Andrew’s College. He spent several years practising as a solicitor in Sydney at Allen Allen & Hemsley and in London at Allen & Overy. Malcolm was called to the Bar in 1980. He commenced practice at Tenth Floor Chambers (then Ten Wentworth). After short periods at other chambers including 13 Wentworth, he returned to Tenth Floor Chambers, where he spent the majority of his career. Malcolm took silk in 1994 and, later in his practice, specialised in Schemes of Arrangements.

Malcolm was a loving husband to Beverley, father to William, Warren, Georgie and Alistair and grandfather to Josie, Teodor, Clementine, Eloise, Lachlan and Eleanor.

Funeral details will be circulated via InBrief in due course.