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Experience

Since coming to the Bar in 2010, Maree has developed a busy trial and appellate practice, including in administrative and public law, and personal injuries and tort law. She primarily accepts briefs in Victorian and Tasmanian matters.

Maree completed a Master of Law degree at the University of Cambridge, on a scholarship from the Cambridge Trusts. She also has a First Class Honours undergraduate degree in law from the University of Tasmania.


Previously, Maree was an Associate to the Honourable Justice Neave of the Victorian Court of Appeal, and a Senior Associate in the Litigation practice group at Allens. She is a reporter for the Victorian Reports and a member of the Dever’s List Committee and the ABA Ethics Committee.

A summary of Maree’s experience follows:

Administrative and public law

Maree is Counsel Assisting the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings (led by E Bennett SC). She has significant Royal Commission experience, having acted for ANZ in the Banking Royal Commission (led by M Collins QC and K Williams SC) and for Japara in the Aged Care Royal Commission (led by J Delany QC and M Borsky QC).

She regularly appears in judicial review proceedings in the Supreme Courts of Victoria and Tasmania. Recent cases include:

• Hartill-Law v Stratford (Vic) 1 Pty Ltd & Ors [2022] VSC 472 (unled)

• Dodds v Atcorp Investments Pty Ltd & Ors [2022] VSC 392 (led by D Star QC)

• Akbari v Victorian WorkCover Authority & Ors [2022] VSC 84 (unled)

• Ryan v Disler [2021] VSC 411 (unled)

• Lefevre v Director of Housing [2021] TASSC 33 (unled)

• Matthews v Com1 International Pty Ltd [2021] VSC 361 (led by S O’Meara QC)

• Rafati v Victorian WorkCover Authority [2020] VSC 444 (led by J Gorton QC)

• Director of Housing v Parsons [2019] TASFC 3 (led by R Merkel QC)

In addition to the above appearance work, Maree is regularly briefed to provide advice to government departments and statutory authorities.

Maree is also available for inquiry and investigation work. Her experience in this area includes conducting an independent complaints process in relation to sexual harassment and related matters for the University of Tasmania in 2020, and an investigation under the Child Wellbeing & Safety Act 2005 (Vic) in 2019.

Personal injuries and tort

Maree currently acts personal injuries and property damage claims in the Federal Court, as well as the Supreme Courts of Victoria and Tasmania, including on an unled basis.

She has particular experience in historical child sexual abuse and appellate cases, including:

• JTS v Trustees of the Diocese of Tasmania, 2022, Supreme Court of Tasmania, reserved (led by K Read SC)

• Baumgartner v VWA [2022] VSCA 21 (unled)

• Randhawa v TAC [2021] VSCA 135 (led by J Ruskin QC)

• Braam v BBC Hardware Ltd [2020] VSCA 164 (led by J Gorton QC)

• Tawakuli v VWA [2020] VSCA 22 (led by S O’Meara QC)