Division of Bar Roll:
Victorian Practising Counsel
Profile:
Sam Hay has a broad practice at the Bar encompassing advice and appearance work at trial and appellate level. He appears in the superior courts. He has extensive experience in banking and finance disputes, corporations law, insurance disputes of all types, fraud and fiduciary matters, financial advice disputes, class actions, insolvency cases, trust disputes, professional negligence claims of all types and contract and trade practices disputes. He also has extensive experience in tort cases (including institutional abuse and malicious prosecution matters) and administrative law (judicial review) proceedings. Sam regularly appears in Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry.
Sam:
- is a board member of the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner and Chair of its Investment and Funding Committee;
- is Chair of Conferences at the Australian Bar Association;
- was President of the Victorian Bar Council from November 2022 until November 2023;
- was a member of the Victorian Legal Admissions Committee which was established by the Victorian Legal Admissions Board;
- was a director and the deputy chair of Barristers' Chambers Limited;
- was Junior Vice-President of the Victorian Bar Council;
- was Treasurer, and before that Assistant Treasurer, of the Victorian Bar Council;
- was chair of the Bar’s Counsel Committee;
- was chair of the Bar's Audit, Finance and Risk Committee;
- was a member of the Indictable Crime Certificate Committee; and
- was Honorary Secretary, and before that Assistant Honorary Secretary, of the Victorian Bar Council.
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