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Roz is an expert in Immigration and Refugee Law. She has over 25 years of experience in these areas including working at the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (as it then was), as a Full-time Member of the Refugee Review Tribunal in Sydney from 1993 to 1996 and as the co-author of Refugee Law in Australia published by Oxford University Press in May 2003. Refugee Law in Australia was the first comprehensive Australian legal text on this subject. Roz is a contributor to the LexisNexis Australian Immigration Law looseleaf and on-line service. Roz has been recognised as one of Australia’s leading Immigration Lawyers and is currently listed in Best Lawyers (Australian Edition).
Prior to the end of the dual regulation of migration lawyers which took effect in March 2021,Roz had been registered as a migration agent since 1992 which means she has an in-depth knowledge of how the visa system actually works in practice. She handles a full range of immigration and refugee matters from the primary decision level to merits and judicial review which gives her an in-depth and practical understanding of the field. Roz also provides strategic immigration advice for individuals and businesses. Roz has been a guest tutor at the Leo Cussen Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Administrative Law Basics, Freedom of Information and Federal Court Practice. From 1997 to 2001, Roz was the Secretary of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law. She was a member of the Victorian Bar's Human Rights Committee and the Australian Institute of Administrative Law as well as an associate member of the Law Institute of Victoria.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Roz worked as a solicitor at in the litigation section at Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King Wood Mallesons) and in the Employee Relations section at Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills) in Melbourne. From June 2002 to December 2014, Roz was a co-principal of Migration Practice Essentials which pioneered high quality CPD courses for migration agents and lawyers.
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