Who is on the Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister List
Only barristers on the Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister List can be briefed for major criminal trials of longer than 15 days. In all other criminal trials, an exception is required from Victoria Legal Aid in advance to brief barristers who are not on the Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister List.
The Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister List operates in harmony with the Victorian Bar Indictable Crime Certificate accreditation scheme. This is reflected in one of the key entry criteria for membership on the list, which requires the barrister to apply for or maintain an Indictable Crime Certificate.
Briefing a barrister
Victoria Legal Aid expects practitioners to exercise their professional judgement and employ a sensible briefing practice in selecting appropriately qualified barristers for different trials.dam
A practitioner must obtain approval from Victoria Legal Aid prior to briefing Senior Counsel. If a practitioner briefs Senior Counsel without the appropriate grant of legal assistance, counsel will be paid at Senior Junior rates in accordance with the fees in Table F and Table M.
Also see Briefing Victoria Legal Aid Chambers to engage the services of our advocates.
Barristers on this list will change. Practitioners should refer to this page before briefing to ensure the barrister is on this list.
Who is on the list
The Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister List includes barristers who have applied to be on the list and have satisfied the entry requirements for membership. While Victoria Legal Aid is confident that all preferred barristers are qualified to conduct criminal trials, they all have different levels of experience and expertise.
The list includes members from the Victorian Bar and public defenders from Victoria Legal Aid Chambers.
Members from the Victorian Bar
Alexander, Theo
Allen, Michael
Anderson, Adrian
Anderson, James
Andrianakis, Sam
Anger, Steven
Argiropoulos, Karen
Avis, Rosalind
Backwell, Richard
Ballard, Kate
Barker, Luke
Barns, Greg
Barton, Rohan
Bates, Adrian
Bayles, Stewart
Beech, Amelia
Bhattacharya, Raj
Billings, Peter
Blair, Kellie
Bloemen, Phillip
Boas, Gideon
Borg, Susan
Boston, Catherine
Brown, Morgan
Bruhn, Sarah
Buckland, Andrew
Burnnard, Amanda
Cameron, Fraser
Cannon, Ashlee
Caruso, Deanna
Casement, Glenn
Casey, Megan
Cenacchi, Mario
Chadwick, Peter (QC)
Champion, Ruth
Chernok, Adam
Chisholm, Gordon
Clark, Emily
Clark, Jennifer
Coates, Eleanor
Coghlan, Georgina
Connelly, Georgina
Cronin, David
Cookson, Matt
Court, Rebekah
Dann, Dermot (QC)
Danos, Tom
Davis, Graeme
de Kretser, Rahmin
Dempsey, Marcus
Desmond, John
Dickenson, Andrew
Doyle, Patrick
Drago, Veronika
Dwyer, Caitlin
Edney, Richard
Fairfield, Cahal
Fallar, Jessica
Fitzpatrick, Timothy
Franjic, Belinda
Gardner, Shane
Garner, Janine
Gerry, Felicity (QC)
Ginsbourg, Shaun
Goldberg, Matthew
Goodenough, Nicholas
Goodfellow, Nicholas
Gray, David
Grace, David (QC)
Gullaci, Jason
Guthridge, Terence
Gwynn, Leighton
Haban-Beer, Astrid
Habib, Markorius
Hallowes, David (SC)
Halphen, Ashley
Hammill, Russell
Hancock, Amie
Hands, Alan
Hardjadibrata, Yildana
Holding, Daniel
Hollingworth, Cecily
Howard, Neil
Hughan, Gregory
Imrie, Andrew
Jackson, Andrew
Johnston, Barnaby
Joosten, Stephanie
Kaddeche, Nadia
Kantor, Jacob
Kapitaniak, Aggy
Karapanagiotidis, Nola
Keating, Sarah
Kelly, John (SC)
Kennedy, Shane
Kenny, Simon
Kounnas, Paul
Kozlowski, Martin
Lacy, Sharon
Langton, David
Lavery, John
Lawrence, Rohan
Lee, Simon
Lewis, Anthony
Lindner, Benjamin
Lindner, Stephen
Line, Lucy
Lowy, Julien
Lynch, Cynthia
Lynch, Thomas
MacDougall, Sandra
Malik, Amit
Mandy, Colin (SC)
Marcou, Penny
Marshall, Alan
Marsh, Tim
Matthews, Peter
McDonald, Kyle
McGlone, Daniel
McGrath, Michael
McKay, Kelly
McKinnon, Elizabeth
McMahon, Julian (SC)
McQuillan, James
Mendicino, Lisa
Mildenhall, Kestin
Miller, Jonathan
Minucci, Matthew
Mitchell, Dianne
Moglia, Simon
Moore, John
Morgan, Charles
Morgan, Grace
Morrissey, Peter SC
Mortley, James
Mylonas, Constantine
Nathwani, Rishi
Newton, Bradley
Nibbs, Bruce
O’Halloran, Patrick
O’Neill, Robert
O'Shea, Gerard
Page, Matthew
Palmer, Andrew (SC)
Papas, Nick (QC)
Patton, Alexander
Pearson, Christopher
Peters, Vincent
Polak, Ian
Poole, Joanne
Poulter, Samantha
Price, Diana
Pyne, Anthony
Rattray, Hayden
Regan, Mark
Richter, Lucien
Rolfe, Katherine
Roodenburg, Abbie
Ruddle, Elizabeth
Sala, Daniel
Saunders, John
Sawyer, Tom
Seoud, Samantha
Shann, Ruth
Sharpley, Angela
Sharpley, Michael
Shaw, Jim
Shwartz, Aaron
Sim, Andrew
Skehan, Philip
Smallwood, Paul
Smith, Peta
Stafford, Samuel
Stanton, Michael
Stavris, Jim
Stefanovic, Paul
Sullivan, Timothy
Swiney, Jo
Tehan, Patrick (QC)
Teo, Philip
Terry, Christopher
Thies, Lucinda
Thomas, Malcolm
Thomas, Sarah
Thyssen, Robert
Tittensor, Megan (SC)
Tiwana, Pardeep
Toohey, Wayne
Tovey, Samuel
Trood, Antony
Tueno, Elizabeth
Turner, Michael
van de Wiel, Remy (QC)
Wallace, Stephanie
Warren, Jane
Wendlandt, Sarah
Wheelahan, Justin
Willee, Justin
Williams, Jarrod
Public defenders from Victoria Legal Aid Chambers
More information
For more information to assist practitioners with understanding the changes to briefing a barrister for a criminal trial and navigating the changes to ATLAS, please see: