Caite Brewer is the Market Leader junior counsel in estate litigation (Doyle’s Guide 2019 and 2020) and has practiced for over 30 years as both a barrister and a solicitor – most of that time exclusively in estate and trust litigation.
Caite is an accredited specialist advisor (SSA®) with the SMSF Self Managed Superannuation Fund Association . She is a former Queensland Law Society (QLS) accredited specialist in succession law (the rules recently having changed to no longer allow barristers to maintain this accreditation) and in 2009 she received the coveted Highest Achiever Award for the graduate of that program with the highest marks.
She is a past chair of the Queensland Branch of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), a worldwide professional body with more than 21,000 members in over 96 countries. In 2013 Caite received the prestigious STEP Founder’s Award for Outstanding Achievement, for her contributions to the Queensland Branch.
Caite is a founding member of Hemmant’s List.
She is a regular presenter at seminars and conferences on succession law issues. Her particular interests are in superannuation death benefit disputes, contentious probate matters, will construction and rectification cases and informal will applications.
Caite is consistently briefed in significant matters, by the major law firms that operate in her areas of expertise. She is also sought after as an Estate Law Mediator.
Caite has been consistently highly ranked in Doyle’s Guide. Every year since 2017 she has been recognised as preeminent or market leading within her areas of expertise, most recently:
- Wills and Estates Litigation Junior Counsel – QLD
- 2022 – Preeminent
- 2023 – Preeminent
- 2024 – Preeminent
- 2025 – Preeminent
- Wills & Estates Litigation Junior Counsel – Australia
- 2022 – Preeminent
- 2023 – Preeminent
- 2024 – Preeminent
For a more comprehensive summary of Caite’s professional life, including cases, visit her website.
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