Michelle Jenkins enjoys a broad practice with a focus on public and administrative law, quasi-criminal matters, and family law.

Michelle appears regularly both for and against government agencies and departments, as well as for private clients and legally aided clients.

She has experience in the following areas:

• Child protection and youth justice;
• Royal commissions and inquiries;
• Subpoenas, public interest immunity and legal professional privilege;
• Post sentence orders pursuant to the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 and the Serious Sex Offenders (Detention and Supervision) Act 2009;
• Disciplinary proceedings and regulatory prosecutions;
• Coronial inquests;
• Migration;
• Intervention orders;
• Family law - parenting and financial;
• VCAT residential tenancies and civil claims;
• Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal applications and reviews;
• Mental Health Tribunal advice and hearings;
• Insolvency and bankruptcy.

Prior to coming to bar, Michelle was a Principal Solicitor at the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office, where she worked from 2008 to 2016.  Her final year at VGSO was spent exclusively on the State Response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

From 2002 to 2008, Michelle worked in private practice on a large variety of commercial litigation matters, with an emphasis on insolvency and contractual disputes.

Michelle read with Ben Ihle and her senior mentor is Kerri Judd QC.