News and Events
March Readers have signing of Bar Roll
05.05.2022
Congratulations to our March Readers who tonight sign the Bar Roll
List welcomes Jennifer Davies S.C.
12.04.2022
The List warmly welcomes back Jennifer Davies S.C., who has returned from the Federal Court and is now available to accept briefs.
We welcome the following readers.
29.09.2021
Accepting briefs from 22 October 2021.
Castan Centre - Human Rights Law Conference
30.06.2021
Registration can be found here
Supreme Court Appointments
19.05.2021
Congratulations to Richard Attiwill QC and Stephen O'Meara QC on their appointments as judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Daryl Williams AM QC
27.01.2021
Congratulations to Daryl John Williams AM QC for being appointed Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Australia Day Honours List. This award is for significant service to the legal profession, to the community, and to cancer research.
Supreme Court appointment for James Gorton QC
14.12.2020
congratulations to James Gorton QC on his appointment as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Fiona McLeod AO S.C.
28.01.2020
Congratulations to Fiona McLeod AO S.C. on her appointment as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for ‘distinguished service to the law, and to the legal profession, at the national and international level, and to women lawyers.’
Professor Staniforth Ricketson AM
28.01.2020
Congratulations to former List member Emeritus Professor Staniforth Ricketson AM on his appointment as a Member of the Order of Australia for 'significant service to legal education and to intellectual property law.'
Paul Czarnota tribunal appointment
03.04.2020
Congratulations to Paul Czarnota who was recently appointed as an inaugural tribunal member to the newly formed National Sports Tribunal by Senator the Hon. Richard Colbeck, Commonwealth Minister for Youth and Sport.
Perry Herzfeld S.C. Appointment
06.10.2020
Congratulations to Perry Herzfeld on his appointment as Senior Counsel in and for the state of NSW/
Senior Counsel Appointments
06.10.2020
Warm congratulations to Timothy Puckey, Lisa Hannon, Patrick Wheelahan and Benno Ihle on their appointment as Senior Counsel in and for the State of Victoria.
Peter Dunning QC
20.04.2020
"Spence v Queensland; Calibrating Australian Federalism for a Second Century?"
September Readers
19.08.2020
A warm welcome to Patrick Coleridge, Harry Hill-Smith, Paul Jeffreys,
Amel Masinovic, Rebecca McCarthy and Rose Singleton
Part IV Family Provision Cases– Practitioners Beware
29.09.2020
In the recent case of Re Janson; Gash v Ruzicka [2020] VSC 449 (23 July 2020), McMillan J held that before the court can be satisfied that a plaintiff has been left without adequate provision under a Will, the court needs to be satisfied that it has been provided with adequate evidence of the plaintiff’s financial resources. In the above case, Maya Rozner successfully argued that in the absence of such evidence a moral claim alone is not sufficient to warrant an order for further provision.