Fiona is a Senior Counsel at the Victorian Bar practising in the areas of commercial, public and common law including class actions. She signed the bar roll in 1991 and was appointed silk in 2003.
Fiona appears regularly in the Supreme Court of Victoria and the Federal Court of Australia in trials, including jury trials, and appeals. She led the class action into the Murrindindi Black Saturday bushfires.
She led the Commonwealth team in the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry, the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission and the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sex Abuse working closely with the Attorney General’s Department to represent the interests of the Commonwealth across the whole of government. She has appeared for private insurers and aged care providers in the Banking and Aged Care Royal Commissions.
Fiona studied law at the University of Melbourne, and has completed a Masters of Public and International Law. She completed the Company Directors Course with the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2016.
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