Nominations for the Victorian Bar Council Election open Friday, 13 October

12Oct2023

The nominations process for the 2023-2024 Victorian Bar Council elections opens this Friday.

Vero Voting has been engaged to conduct the nominations process as well as the voting process (previously, the nominations process was conducted in-house). All eligible financial members will receive an email from Vero Voting which will include a link for members to nominate themselves as a candidate.

It will require prospective nominees to fill in their details, plus a minimum of five nominators, and their nominators’ email addresses.

Chosen nominators will receive an email advising them that they have been selected as a nominator, with instructions to click a link to confirm the nomination. Only nominators who are financial will receive the email therefore you are encouraged to select more than five nominators to ensure that your nomination is valid and received by close of nominations.

This year an extra component has been added to the ‘additional information’ section which will allow candidates to submit a ‘candidate statement’. The information in the statement can be amended until nominations close on Thursday, 26 October.

Voting opens on Wednesday, 1 November at 9:00am, and closes on Wednesday, 8 November at 5:00pm.

The election process will continue as per previous years; with the voting time reduced to one week.

The results will be declared on Thursday, 9 November, and then announced to members on Friday, 10 November.