Alexia Staker | Victorian Bar

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Date of Admission:

07 Dec 2010

First Signed Bar Roll:

25 Oct 2018

Division of Bar Roll:

Victorian Practising Counsel

Qualifications:

BA, LLB (Hons) (Melb), LLM (Dist) (LSE)

Profile:

Alexia practises in all areas of commercial and public law, including trade practices, corporations and regulatory matters. She also advises and appears in matters involving constitutional, administrative, planning and environment law.

Alexia also has experience advising on and appearing in commissions and inquiries. She is currently briefed for the State of Victoria in the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System, led by Claire Harris QC.

Before coming to the Bar, Alexia was a Senior Legal Adviser in the Office of the General Counsel at the Department of Premier and Cabinet. In 2015 she was seconded to the Royal Commission into Family Violence. Alexia was previously an Associate at Baker & McKenzie and Senior Associate to the Honourable Justice Maxwell AC, President of the Court of Appeal.

In the UK, Alexia worked at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and at ClientEarth, a European environmental law NGO, where she led a project on directors’ liability for climate change-related financial risk.

Alexia holds a first class honours degree from the University of Melbourne. She completed a Master of Laws at the London School of Economics and Political Science and was awarded the Lawyers’ Alumni Prize for achieving the highest overall mark in the LLM.

Alexia read with Paul Liondas. Her senior mentor is Rowena Orr QC.

Please see the "Extended Biography" tab for a list of recent matters. Please click here to view the List A Barristers profile of Alexia Staker.

Extended Biography:

Recent matters include the following:

Commercial law

Lochard Energy (Iona Operations Holding) Pty Ltd v EnergyAustralia Investments Pty Ltd (Supreme Court of Victoria, ongoing) – led by N Young QC, M Collins QC and P Liondas, instructed by King & Wood Mallesons (misleading or deceptive conduct; breach of warranty)

Acting for the State of Victoria regarding construction of the West Gate Tunnel Project (ongoing) – led by T Boston QC

Freestyle Energy Ltd v Macquarie Corporate Holdings Pty Ltd (Supreme Court of Victoria, ongoing) – with S Gory, instructed by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan (shareholder oppression)

Australian Securities and Investment Commission v AMP (Federal Court, settled) – led by Fiona McLeod AO SC, with L Papaelia, instructed by ASIC (alleged fee for no service; legal professional privilege)

Public law

Caligiuri v Attorney-General (on behalf of the State of Victoria) [2019] VSC 365 – led by S Morris QC and E Nekvapil, instructed by Macpherson Kelley (compulsory acquisition; breach of procedural fairness)

Wol v Director Fines Victoria (Supreme Court of Victoria, settled) – led by E Nekvapil, instructed by WEstjustice (judicial review; racial discrimination; Charter s 38)

Acting for company directors seeking judicial review of a decision of the Takeovers Panel – led by J Pizer QC, instructed by SBA Law

Royal Commissions

Acting for the State of Victoria in the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System (ongoing) – led by C Harris QC

Advice

Various advices regarding public law and statutory interpretation matters (respectively led by K Walker QC, Solicitor-General for Victoria, J Pizer QC and C Harris QC) and planning law matters (unled)

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Area of Practice

Commercial Law
- Corporations Law & Securities Law
  - ASIC Investigations
  - Directors' Liabilities
  - Financial Products Regulation
  - Shareholder Disputes
- Contractual Disputes
- Property & Probate
- Class Actions
- International Commercial Law
Appellate
- Civil Appeals
- Merit Appeals
Equity & Trusts
Public Law & Administrative Law
- Judicial Review
- Human Rights Law
- Merits Review
- Disciplinary Proceedings
- Constitutional Law
- Discrimination & Equal Opportunity
Inquests, Inquiries, Tribunals & Commissions
- Royal Commissions
- Coronial Inquests
- Disciplinary Tribunals
- Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)
- Domestic Building Tribunal
Environmental Law & Planning Law