Division of Bar Roll:
Victorian Practising Counsel
Profile:
Phil specialises in criminal law and intervention orders.
His experience includes:
- appearing at trial in the Supreme and County Courts;
- appearing at contested hearings in the Magistrates’ Court; and
- advising, acting and appearing for litigants in intervention orders;
He has appeared in trials for:
- Murder and Attempted Murder,
- Drugs,
- Violence,
- Sexual assault, and
- Fraud.
He has successfully argued issues involving:
- no case to answer;
- discontinuance of prosecution;
- separation of trials;
- irrelevant evidence;
- unfairly prejudicial evidence; and
- unreliable evidence.
He does and has volunteered at these community legal services:
- Salvation Army Bourke Street,
- Springvale, and
- Fitzroy Legal Service.
He regularly volunteers his services as a moot court magistrate for the Victorian Bar Readers Course and the Victoria Police Prosecutors Course.
Phil has also conducted many pro bono CPD lectures for law firms. If you would like him to present a CPD paper please call him on 0412 161 702.
He read with Mr Peter 'David' Drake.
The information referred to above has been supplied by the barrister concerned. Neither Victorian Bar Inc nor the barrister's clerk
have independently verified the accuracy or completeness of the information and neither accepts any responsibility in that regard.