Tyson was admitted to practice in 1998 and signed the Bar Roll in 2005. He conducts a broad commercial litigation and advisory practice. A selection of matters in which Tyson has been briefed are referred to in the 'Cases' tab.
Areas of particular interest include:
He has substantial experience in litigation involving estate agents, medical practices and non-English-speaking clients and has acted in disputes involving cryptocurrency exchanges.
Tyson is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He holds a Masters Degree in Bioethics, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment and has completed the Company Directors Course. He is a member of the Victorian Bar's audit, finance & risk committee.
Outside his practice at the Bar, Tyson is:
Before coming to the Bar Tyson practiced as a solicitor (with Piper Alderman Lawyers and with Phillips Fox / DLA Piper) and was an executive in the technology industry. He was co-founder of an Internet-based financial services company.
Tyson has a strong interest in medical & scientific ethics and related issues. He spent 14 years as a member of the Ethics Committee of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, retiring in December 2020.
Cases:
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Daniel has more than twenty years of experience as a commercial barrister. He regularly appears in the Supreme Court of Victoria, Federal Court, County Court of Victoria, the Courts of Appeal, and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
His particular areas of expertise are in competition and consumer law, property and proprietary estoppel, equity and trusts, commercial contracts, restraints of trade, directors’ duties and partnerships. He is included in Australia's Best Lawyers for Competition Law (2018 to 2026) and Commercial Law (2020 to 2026).
He also practises in corporations law, insolvency, telecommunications, professional negligence, corporate governance, administrative law and local government.
Prior to signing the Bar Roll in 2004, Daniel was a Senior Associate in the Competition Group of Allens Linklaters in Melbourne and a director in the Telecommunications Group of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. He was Associate to the former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, Sir Gerard Brennan.
Daniel is the author of Competition Law - The Laws of Australia (2014 Thomson Reuters). For more than twenty years, he was the author and editor of the Competition Law and Restraints of Trade chapters of Laws of Australia. He has published several refereed articles in the areas of competition law, international trade law, law and economics, consumer protection and unconscionability.
He has Honours in Economics at Monash University, Master of Laws with first class honours at the University of Melbourne, and Master of Laws (Kent Scholar) at Columbia University Law School, New York. He was an Assistant Lecturer in Economics at Monash University. At the Law School of the University of Melbourne, he co-lectured Economics for Competition Lawyers in the Masters program and lectured Legal Theory in the Juris Doctor program.
Daniel was the Chair of the Competition and Consumer Law Section of the Commercial Bar Association of Victoria from 2019 to 2022. He is the Principal Examiner for Specialist Accreditation for Commercial Litigation for the Law Institute of Victoria.
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Robert practises in occupational health and safety, environmental and other regulatory prosecutions, personal injury, employment and industrial law, criminal law, professional disciplinary proceedings and coronial inquests in all courts and tribunals.
He was recognised in the 2025 and 2026 Doyle's Guide rankings as the Market Leader in the field of workplace health and safety law. In recent years he has appeared in many of the most significant cases in the area at both trial and appellate level, including all of the first three workplace manslaughter prosecutions conducted in Victoria.
He specialises in areas involving the intersection of the criminal law with business: occupational health and safety, competition law, corporations law and environmental regulation offences. He appears in both prosecutions and civil penalty proceedings at trial and appellate level, at inquests and disciplinary proceedings, and in the Fair Work Commission and other employment law tribunals.
He also appears in state and federal courts in personal injury cases, industrial cases, employment contract cases, general protections disputes, sexual harassment and discrimination cases. He regularly appears for players at the AFL tribunal.
Experience
Occupational Health and Safety/Regulatory Offences
Robert acts for companies charged with offences under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and similar legislation, in contested cases and pleas. He has appeared with success in numerous jury trials. He has appeared in a number of the significant cases in the field in the Court of Appeal and the High Court.
He is available to advise on incident management, analysing briefs of evidence, and whether a case should be contested or pleas of guilty entered.
He has also acted in prosecutions brought under the Environment Protection Act, the Building Act, the Planning Act, and Food Act, and the Gambling Regulation Act and has been briefed by the Victorian Workcover Authority, the Victorian Commissioner for Gambling and Liquor Regulation and several municipal councils to prosecute offences.
Industrial and Employment
Robert has acted for companies such as John Holland, Schweppes, Nissan Australia, Esso, DP World and Baiada Poultry in major industrial cases in the Supreme Court, the federal courts and the Fair Work Commission. He has also appeared for both employers and employees in employment contract disputes in State courts, unfair dismissal cases in the Fair Work Commission and underpayment and general protections claims in the Federal Circuit Court. He has appeared in a number of significant matters at first instance and on appeal, including in the High Court, for the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner.
Personal Injury
Since taking silk Robert has developed a practice in personal injury trial work and accepts briefs to appear in jury trials, causes and appeals.
Inquests
Robert regularly appears in the Coroners Court and has represented the Chief Commissioner of Police, employers, and families of deceased persons in that jurisdiction.
Criminal Law
Robert is an experienced jury trial advocate with particular experience in Corporations Act prosecutions, fraud, and major drug prosecutions.. He is also experienced in conducting general criminal law cases.
He has also appeared in the Court of Appeal in serious criminal matters on conviction and sentence appeals.
He is the former author/editor of the online edition of Ross on Crime.
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Chris practises primarily in employment, commercial, and regulatory law. He accepts briefs in sports law and criminal matters.
Employment and industrial law
Chris acts in employment and industrial matters, including:
Chris also acts in workplace health and safety matters.
Commercial and property law
Chris acts in all areas of commercial law, particularly matters involving breaches of fiduciary and statutory duties, property law, and the protection of confidential information.
He also acts in matters involving incorporated associations, including sporting associations.
He appears in urgent applications, including applications for injunctions and freezing orders.
Regulatory matters, public law and criminal law
Chris regularly appears in merits review matters in the Review and Regulation List at VCAT. He acts both for and against regulators in professional disciplinary, privacy and freedom of information matters.
Chris acts in judicial review matters in State and Federal Courts.
Chris also accepts briefs in criminal and quasi-criminal matters, including regulatory prosecutions (such as those under the Building Act 1993 (Vic)), and coronial inquests. He regularly appears unled in County Court conviction appeal matters.
Sports law
Chris represents athletes and sporting bodies at hearings before sporting tribunals, including appearing before the AFL Tribunal and AFL Appeals Board.
He has been appointed Special Counsel under the Professional Boxing and Combat Sports Act 1985 (Vic) to represent both the interests of the regulator and applicants.
Victorian Bar
Chris is a member of the Victorian Bar’s Bar Council in 2025/2026.
He is also currently a member of the following Bar Committees:
Chris is also a member of the Industrial Bar Association, the Commercial Bar Association, and the Criminal Bar Association.
Background information
Before coming to the Bar, Chris represented clients in highly regulated industries, including government, health, private health insurance, gambling, and energy.
Chris was Associate to the Hon Justice Hargrave while his Honour was Principal Judge of the Commercial Court at the Supreme Court of Victoria, and then a judge of the Court of Appeal.
Chris has a Bachelor of Arts and a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne. He also has a Graduate Diploma in Data Analytics.
Chris read with Tom Smyth. His senior mentor is Ben Ihle KC.
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Carly practices predominantly in corporate and commercial litigation, tort and insurance law. She practices across Victoria and Tasmania.
Before joining the independent Bar in Western Australia in 2016 she held Special Counsel and Senior Associate roles in the commercial litigation groups of Allion Partners, Holman Fenwick Willan LLP and Talbot Olivier Lawyers. She completed her early career years in personal injury and insurance litigation, including within the statutory workers’ compensation and compulsory third party motor vehicle insurance regimes.
Carly holds degrees in Law and Economics from the University of Western Australia and a Masters in International Relations from Curtin University of Technology.
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Chris practises mainly in commercial law, equity and trusts law, and public law. He also has experience in anti-discrimination matters. Chris has advised and appeared on behalf of corporations, government bodies and individuals in a range of courts and tribunals, at both trial and appellate level.
Before coming to the Bar, Chris worked as a senior associate to the Honourable Chief Justice Marilyn Warren AC and the Honourable Justice Melanie Sloss at the Supreme Court of Victoria, as a solicitor at Allens working on tax and intellectual property litigation, and as an associate to the Honourable Justice Susan Kenny AM at the Federal Court of Australia.
Chris completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated second in his LLB cohort. He is proficient in French and spent an exchange semester at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon III during his studies. In 2017, Chris completed a Bachelor of Civil Law at Balliol College, Oxford.
Chris is the secretary of not-for-profit association BottledSnail Productions Inc and a reporter for the Victorian Reports. He read with Jonathan Kirkwood SC and was a member of the Victorian Bar’s Pro Bono Committee for seven years.
Matters in which Chris has been briefed include:
Commercial and corporations law
Equity and trusts law
Taxation law
Public law
Discrimination and employment/industrial law
Advice
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Callum accepts briefs in commercial and common law matters, and has a particular interest in disputes involving regulated commercial relationships, such as retail leases, Security of Payment Act disputes, and licences and permits.
Before coming to the bar, Callum was associate to first Justice Osborn and then Justice Riordan where he was involved in proceedings in every division of the Supreme Court of Victoria, including the Court of Appeal.
He was awarded both the Supreme Court Prize and the Dean's Medal (Law) in his final year at La Trobe University, graduating with first class Honours.
Callum has tutored and assessed law students, including the subjects of Remedies, Tort Law, Contract Law, Property Law, Statutory Interpretation, Public Law, and Family Law.
He regularly operates with electronic briefs, and prefers to do so where feasible.
Callum read with Samuel Hopper. His senior mentor is Ian Waller QC.
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Simon Grant was admitted as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland on 16 June, 1997, a Barrister of the High Court of Australia on the 29th January, 1999 and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales on 17th March, 2003. He has completed Mediation Training at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2001.
Simon accepts instructions from Solicitors to appear and/or advise in the areas of practice listed, in preliminary disputes, in hearings and trials at first instance and in appeals. He also accepts briefs from in-house corporate counsel. Simon is available to act as a mediator or to appear for parties in mediations. He has extensive experience representing parties in mediations.
Simon is co-author of the LexisNexis loose-leaf and online service Civil Liability Australia with Richard Douglas KC and Gerry Mullins KC, as well as being co-author of the Annotated Civil Liability Legislation Queensland (from the 1st edition to the current 6th edition).
Previously a tutor at the Queensland University of Technology in 2002/2003, Mr Grant has also been involved in the QUT Alumni mentor program and is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association.
Cal has a broad practice in public law spanning first instance and appellate matters. Cal also accepts briefs in some commercial law, common law and industrial law matters.
He has appeared in the High Court (special leave, led), the Federal Court (led and unled), the FCFCA (led and unled), the Supreme Court of Victoria (Court of Appeal and Trial Division, led and unled), the Supreme Court of Queensland (Trial Division, led), the County Court of Victoria (unled), the VCAT (led and unled), the AAT (led) and the Coroner’s Court of Victoria (led and unled).
Cal also has experience acting for CEOs, senior executives, and Ministers of the Crown called before boards of inquiry, parliamentary inquires, regulators (e.g., APRA), anti-corruption commissions (e.g., IBAC) and ombudsmen, including when subject to compulsory examination.
Cal holds an LLM (Public Law) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2012 to 2013), where he studied as a Chevening Scholar, and was awarded the Stanley De Smith Prize for the best overall performance in the public law specialism. In his undergraduate studies, Cal was awarded the Dean’s Merit List Award in Law.
Cal read with Nick Wood S.C., and his senior mentor was Sturt Glacken K.C.
Before coming to the Bar, Cal was Deputy General Counsel/Senior Adviser to the then Premier of Victoria (2016 to 2021), an adviser at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (2014 to 2016), and a solicitor in the commercial team at Hunt & Hunt Lawyers (2011 to 2012).
Cal currently sits on the Indigenous Justice Committee of the Victorian Bar, and is a member of Koiki Mabo Chambers.
For a sample list of cases and inquiries, click here.
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Lachlan practices in revenue, foreign investment and commercial law. He specialises in taxation and the foreign investment (FIRB) regime.
He frequently acts for the Commonwealth as well as private clients.
Lachlan has appeared in a wide range of disputes in the High Court, Full Federal Court, Federal Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, as well as Royal Commissions.
Lachlan practices in Australian foreign investment law (FIRB) matters, having been involved in drafting the current Act, is the co-author of Thomson Reuters' "Foreign Investment Law" publication, appeared in all recent Federal Court cases involving FIRB breaches and advised on many hundreds of FIRB application and compliance matters.
He has appeared in many taxation trials and appeals in Australia, including in the High Court. He specialises particularly in anti-avoidance and transfer pricing matters, tax treaty disputes and other international tax matters.
He advises on commercial and corporations law matters, including equity and trust law, contract, oppression and ASIC regulatory disputes.
Immediately before coming to the Bar, Lachlan was in the Commonwealth Treasury Portfolio, covering taxation, foreign investment (FIRB) and corporations law. He was involved with the development of Commonwealth legislative reforms, including the development of the Multinational Anti-avoidance Law and Diverted Profits Tax to counter avoidance schemes.
Prior to that he was a solicitor at an international firm advising on taxation and commercial disputes in Australia.
He has graduated with two Masters with Distinction from the University of Oxford (including winning the prize for best overall performance in the Masters of Taxation; and prize for best tax research paper). He has a Bachelors in Laws and Engineering from the University of Melbourne. He was a Pegasus Scholar.
He is the Treasurer and an executive board director of the Law Council of Australia and has been a member of the Victorian Bar Council.
Lachlan has a deep interest in heritage and heritage law and is Chair of the National Trusts of Australia and Chair of the National Trust of Victoria, two community organisations.
He is a Senior Fellow of the Law School of the University of Melbourne, teaching corporations and taxation subjects in the Masters of Law and Juris Doctorate programs, including the Tax Avoidance masters subject taught jointly with former justices Hon Tony Pagone AM KC and Hon Jennifer Davies KC. He also takes the tax subject in the Bar Readers' course.
Lachlan is a member of Lincoln's Inn, London; and maintains chambers there at Field Court Tax Chambers, one of the world's highest ranked tax law sets.
Lachlan read with Eugene Wheelahan QC and Allan Myers AC QC.
Recently published cases in which Lachlan has appeared:
Commercial and equity/trust matters
Keybridge Capital Limited v WAM Active Limited [2023] FCAFC 194
M C Wholesaling v Zheng [2024] VSCA 248
Parker v Auswild; Bergmuller v Auswild [2022] VSCA 8; (2022) 403 ALR 111
Cant v Mad Brothers Earthmoving Pty Ltd [2020] VSCA 198; 63 VR 222
Watkins v Tatana [2023] FCA 248
Porter & Anor v Mulcahy Co Accounting Services Pty Ltd & Ors (No 6) [2024] VSC 6
Re Legal Super Pty Ltd [2023] VSC 545
Ultra Tune Australia Pty Ltd v Cole & Anor [2023] VSC 700
Timeless Sunrise Pty Ltd v BigJ Enterprises Pty Ltd (No 10) [2023] VSC 524
Bignaches Pty Ltd v Access Strata Management Pty Ltd (Costs) [2022] VSC 793
In the matter of Access Strata Management Pty Ltd & Ors [2022] VSC 639
Timeless Sunrise Pty Ltd v BigJ Enterprises (No 3) [2022] VSC 499
Timeless Sunrise Pty Ltd v BigJ Enterprises (No 7) [2022] VSC 549
Ian Morris v Victorian Farmers Federation [2022] VSC 407
Rita Troiano v Ross Voci & Ors [2021] VSC 851
Porter & Anor v Mulcahy & Co Accounting Services Pty Ltd & Ors [2021] VSC 572
JAB Nominees (Aust) Pty Ltd v Auswild [2021] VSC 275; (2021) 152 ACSR 618
JAB Nominees (Aust) Pty Ltd v Auswild & Ors [2020] VSC 731
Porter v Mulcahy & Co Accounting Services Pty Ltd [2020] VSC 430
Ran Bi v Yingde Investments Pty Ltd [2019] VSC 324
Troiano v Voci [2019] VSC 859
In the matter of Erfanian Developments Pty Ltd [2018] VSC 342
Wildorm Pty Ltd v Greg Hocking Altona Pty Ltd & Ors [2024] VCC 96
Carlig v M H Heath & M P Jones (t/as Allmand Jones & Partners) [2019] VCC 1175
Taxation and revenue matters
Sharpcan v Commissioner of Taxation [2019] HCA 36; (2019) 269 CLR 370
Watson v Commissioner of Taxation [2020] HCASL 224
Clough Limited v Commissioner of Taxation [2021] FCAFC 197; (2021) 114 ATR 1
Victoria Power Networks Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2020] FCAFC 169; (2020) 281 FCR 318
Watson v Commissioner of Taxation [2020] FCAFC 92; (2020) 277 FCR 253
Hart v Commissioner of Taxation [2019] FCAFC 179; (2020) 272 FCR 612
Clifford v Tax Practitioners Board (No 2) [2024] FCA 557
Hilton International Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2023] FCA 1504
Makrylos v Commissioner of Taxation [2023] FCA 971
Commissioner of Taxation v Balasubramaniyan [2022] FCA 374
Clough Limited v Commissioner of Taxation [2021] FCA 108; (2021) 112 ATR 752
Clough Limited v Commissioner of Taxation (No 2) [2021] FCA 267
Watson as trustee for the Murrindindi Bushfire Class Action Settlement Fund v Commissioner of Taxation [2019] FCA 228; (2019) 109 ATR 794
Paule v Commissioner of Taxation [2019] FCA 394
Ammouche v Chief Commissioner of Police [2018] FCA 1703; (2018) 266 FCR 430
Premier Bay Pty Ltd v Commissioner of State Revenue [2024] VSC 447
Jeff Lunn and Gregoriades Sofocleous & Associates Pty Ltd and Tax Practitioners Board [2025] ARTA 2654
Auz Taxation and Tax Practitioners Board [2025] ARTA 1711
PCQT and Commissioner of Taxation [2025] ARTA 1873
Lunn and Tax Practitioners Board [2025] ARTA 697
Hall and Commissioner of Taxation [2025] ARTA 600
Shugai and Commissioner of Taxation [2024] AATA 3619
Clifford and Tax Practitioners Board [2023] AATA 2068
Bolton and Australian Securities and Investments Commission [2021] AATA 5293
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Since coming to the Victorian Bar, Justin has practised primarily in criminal, civil, commercial and family law matters including the provision of advice in native title, banking & finance, OH&S and environment protection matters. Appearing regularly for the Defence and the Crown in both State and Commonwealth matters in the Victorian Court of Appeal, Supreme, County and Magistrates' Courts conducting appeals, bail applications, pleas, appeals, subpoena hearings, committals, IVO and IVO appeals, interlocutory appeals, special hearings, ground rules hearings, contests and trials. Justin has also appeared in coronial inquests, civil contests, commercial matters including winding up applications in the Federal and Supreme Courts and VCAT's, administrative and civil divisions in the review and regulation, retail tenancy, human rights, owners corporation, residential tenancy and guardianship and administration lists.
More recently, Justin has been appearing in the Sydney and Melbourne registries in both property and parenting matters, to conduct interim applications and trials for all types of property matters involving partnerships, companies, trusts, spousal maintenance, relocation, recovery orders and litigation funding hearings in the Family and Federal Circuit Court, and has acted as a Court appointed mediator and an Independent children's lawyer in family law matters. He has also been appearing in the County and Supreme Court, in relation to occupational health and safety appeals instituted by the DPP, drug importations, sexual offences, murder and assault trials including fitness to be tried Special Hearings pursuant to the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act . He has conducted out of hours emergency bail applications in the Supreme Court's criminal division and has appeared in the Court of Appeal, criminal division to present appeals against conviction and sentence and interlocutory appeals. Justin has also appeared in the commercial division of the Supreme Court to conduct property disputes and in the judicial review and appeals list.
Since the pandemic commenced, Justin has maintained a practice online, and in person in the commercial, criminal and family law jurisdictions to conduct interim applications, mediations and trials, including appearances in the Federal Court of Australia to conduct Bankruptcy matters and the provision of advice in relation exclusion and restraining orders, pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime legislation.
Justin completed his articles of clerkship as a prosecutor, with the Office of Solicitor to the Environment Protection Authority in 2006 and then spent a year working as a native title solicitor in the Yamatji (Midwest) region of Western Australia with the Yamatji Land and Sea Council. In 2007, he practiced as a solicitor advocate, in the criminal law division of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service regularly appearing in the Koori Court. In 2008, Justin worked as a commercial solicitor in Melbourne at two boutique commercial law firms. Justin has also practised in the Children’s Court in child protection matters and worked as a volunteer solicitor with the Western Suburbs Legal Service. In 2009-2010, Justin practised in Broome with the Kimberley Land Council on native title, criminal and commercial law matters.
Prior to embarking on a legal career, Justin spent some years working in the Australian and Japanese hospitality industry, which culminated in a variety of positions as a Japanese interpreter, translator and tour guide. Justin worked as an interpreter and translator for CBS television at the Nagano Winter Olympic Games in 1998 and for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade at the World Exposition in, Nagoya in 2005.
Justin holds a current Indictable Crime Certificate.
A list of reported cases Justin has appeared in can be obtained from Austlii.
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Perry frequently appears in the High Court and intermediate appellate courts, as well as at the trial level in various jurisdictions.
He is a co-author of Interpretation (3rd ed, 2024), a leading text on interpretation in public and private law, and Nygh’s Conflict of Laws in Australia (11th ed, 2026), a leading text on private international law. He is the editor of the New South Wales Law Reports. He is also a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Perry was an Associate to the Hon Justice Susan Crennan of the High Court of Australia. Before his Associateship, Perry was a lawyer in the litigation department at Allens Arthur Robinson.
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Phil practises in commercial and public law.
In public law, Phil has appeared in both judicial and merits review matters at all levels. He has expertise in professional regulation, particularly in the regulation of health practitioners, as well as environmental law and general administrative law cases (from licensing to patent matters). Phil has taught public law subjects at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University.
In commercial law, Phil has a broad practice including insurance, sale of business and general contractual matters.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Phil was a commercial and public litigation solicitor at Ashurst and Browne & Co in Melbourne, a Principal Legal Policy Officer in the Department of Justice in Victoria, and Associate to the Honourable Justice Habersberger in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Phil also practised in the United Kingdom with Richard Buxton Environmental and Public Law, with whom he instructed at the Supreme Court, and at the Compliance Committee for the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters at the United Nations in Geneva.
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Kalia practices primarily in commercial and public law.
Before coming to the Bar, Kalia was an associate to the Hon Justice Gleeson of the High Court of Australia, associate to the Hon Justice Elliott of the Supreme Court of Victoria and a solicitor in commercial litigation at Allens.
Kalia holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford, for which she was awarded a full scholarship. She graduated second in her cohort from the Juris Doctor at the University of Melbourne.
Some recent cases in which Kalia has been briefed to appear are as follows.
Commercial law
Public law
Kalia has an interest in a diverse range of other areas, including financial crime and common law.
Kalia read with Kateena O’Gorman SC. Her senior mentor is Philip Solomon KC.
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Annette accepts briefs in a broad range of commercial matters.
Before coming to the Bar, Annette was a partner in the litigation team of a leading national law firm where she gained experience in banking and finance, commercial and consumer law, insolvency, regulatory law and securities.
Annette read with Sam Rosewarne KC and her senior mentor is Hamish Austin KC.
Annette served as a member of the Victorian Bar New Barristers' Committee in 2023 and as a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee in 2024.
Some matters in which Annette has been briefed since coming to the Bar include:
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Meg’s principal areas of practice comprise commercial, common law, property, equity & trusts, insurance law and torts.
Meg has a busy trial and advice practice. She appears in all state courts and tribunals and the federal court.
Meg accepts direct briefs (including from in-house counsel).
Meg is a member of the Executive of the Commercial Bar Association and a member of the Bar’s Pro-Bono Committee. She is a former member of the Victorian Bar Council; the Audit, Finance and Risk Committee of the Victorian Bar; and the Counsel Committee of the Victorian Bar.
Prior to being called to the Bar, Meg was a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons). Meg has an honours degree in Philosophy. At University, she was an accomplished mooter and debater and won the World University Debating Championships.
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Minh-Quan practises mainly in public and commercial law.
Minh-Quan has been briefed to appear in a wide range of appellate and first instance matters and to advise on issues in public law, commercial and regulatory law, equity and torts.
Before coming to the Bar, Minh-Quan was the Counsel Assisting the Solicitor‑General for Victoria, an Associate to Chief Justice French and Justice Gordon of the High Court of Australia, and a solicitor in commercial litigation at Arnold Bloch Leibler.
Minh-Quan has a Bachelor of Arts, a Diploma in Languages and a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne. He was awarded the university medal for both arts and law. He later obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law with Distinction from the University of Oxford. He has taught constitutional law at the University of Melbourne and Monash University.
Minh-Quan read with Kathleen Foley SC. His senior mentor is Philip Solomon KC.
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Tom specialises in criminal law and accepts briefs in other areas.
Tom has appeared unled and with a leader in criminal jury trials as counsel for the defence, and in numerous summary trials, intermediate appeals, and contested applications. Tom has also appeared as counsel in common law matters.
He commenced his legal career as a solicitor at Galbally & O’Bryan, and worked for a number of years at NAAJA as a solicitor-advocate and the manager of the East Arnhem Land practice. Tom has also worked at Legal Aid New South Wales. Before signing the Victorian bar roll, Tom practised at the Northern Territory bar and was a founding member of Mindil Chambers.
Tom holds a master’s degree from UCLA School of Law where he was a Dean's Fellow.
He was also judicial extern for the Honorable David O. Carter of the Federal District Court of Central California, sitting principally in the civil docket.
Tom also worked as a researcher for Professor Angela Riley, and represented the Native Nations Law & Policy Centre at the United Nations in Geneva as an accredited delegate in relation to his research.
Tom accepts work internationally, most recently spending time in northern Myanmar training local lawyers and advising on strategic human rights litigation for an international non-governmental organisation.
Tom has spent a number of seasons as the reporting officer representing AFLNT in tribunal hearings.
Tom holds an Indictable Crime Certificate and is a member of the Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister List.
Tom also accepts work in jurisdictions interstate, and is a member of the New South Wales Legal Aid Indictable Criminal Law Barrister Panel, and the Northern Territory Indictable Legal Aid Panel.
He read with Judge Anthony Lewis and his senior mentor is Ruth Shann SC.