Richard accepts briefs in all areas of Criminal Law.
Richard did his first criminal defence trial in 1998 when he worked as a Public Defender at Victoria Legal Aid. He regularly appeared in committals, pleas, trials and appeals in his 10 years at VLA.
Prior to signing the Bar Roll in November 2007, Kim Southey worked as a lawyer in the firm BJT Legal in the Melbourne and Benalla offices from 2003 to 2007 and practised primarily in the areas of Family Law, Criminal Law and Crimes Family Violence.
Over the past 15 years, Aggy has developed a practice in Crime (and quasi- criminal matters) and Regulatory matters in all jurisdictions.
Aggy has developed a varied practice including advising and appearing in regulatory matters, commissions of inquiry and IBAC.
Sarah has expertise in criminal and public law. She appears in criminal trials, criminal appeals, judicial review proceedings, commissions of inquiry and in regulatory cases.
Appearance Work
Jo is an experienced trial and appealant advcocate representing clients from pre-trial through to trial and hearing stages in Criminal, Testator Family Maintainence, Adminstrative and Employment law.
Patricia specialises in Criminal and Family Law.
She appears regularly in the Magistrates and County Courts in pleas, bail applications, appeals, contested hearings and committals. She also has extensive experience in the Childrens’ Court Criminal jurisdiction.
Employed in various community centres, Victoria Aboriginal Legal Aid and as a Criminal Lawyer.Operating a practice in Richmond for approximately 20 years. Divides time between working in Northern NSW/Southern Queensland and Victoria, primarily in Criminal Trial work.
Moya accepts briefs in all areas of criminal and administrative law.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (OH&S)
Sam defends employers (from publicly listed companies to individuals) and employees charged with OH&S offences under both State (WorkSafe) and Commonwealth (Comcare) matters.
Deborah Jefferson LL.B, MPub&IntLaw(Melb) is a barrister at the Victorian Bar who specialises in criminal law. Prior to going to the Bar she gained experience as a solicitor at Paul Vale Criminal Law.
In her practice as a barrister, Amy predominately appears in personal injury related matters. She appears both on her own and with senior counsel, in all jurisdictions in which such matters are litigated.
Ashlee Cannon has a solid criminal practice, with appearances in numerous trials and committals. She accepts briefs for all criminal matters, including Trials, Committals, Summary Contests and Appeals. Ashlee has been selected as a Victoria Legal Aid Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister List.
Before coming to the bar, Matthew was a Solicitor with Leanne Warren and Associates, one of the leading criminal law firms in Melbourne.
Jacob graduated with degrees in Law, with Honours, and Arts.
Jacob served his articles of clerkship at the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office under principals James Ruddle and John Cain.
Morgan's practice is focused on Common Law, Public law and regulatory/white-collar crime, including OHS. He is particularly focussed on where there is a substantial cross-over in practice areas with Crime.
Charlotte Duckett was admitted to practice in March of 2002 and signed the bar roll in November 2009.
Tania accepts briefs in all areas of criminal and family law including family violence and intervention order matters.
Adam practices in common law and commercial law.
Deanna practises across criminal, regulatory and disciplinary law.
Rohan now has a broad mixed practice in Criminal Law (including driving matters) and Family Law (including Intervention Orders) and is available to appear in a variety of jurisdictions under the Legal Profession Uniform Law.
Kerry has extensive experience practising in the areas of family law, criminal law and the Children’s Court.
Appearance and advice work
Simon Kenny is a criminal defence barrister.
He appears in trials and other indictable criminal proceedings.
Michael has over 19 years of experience as a solicitor advocate from 2000 to 2007 and as a barrister from 2007.
Jessica Fallar accepts briefs in all areas of criminal law and quasi-criminal law from both prosecution and defence with particular interest in high-level research, submissions and appearance. She enjoys circuit work.
Lee commenced her legal career at VLA where she completed her articles and then worked as a solicitor.
Neil practices predominantly in the criminal law jurisdiction and as a solicitor advocate has experience in trial work at County Court level. He maintains particular interests in employment law, contract law, sports law and environmental law.
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