Dr Kristine Hanscombe SC
- Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science (Honours)Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Ph.D
- Chambers:
- Level 6 Room 1Joan Rosanove Chambers 550 Lonsdale Street Melbourne
- Telephone:
- 03 9225 8268
- Facsimile:
- 03 9225 7293
- Signed Bar Roll:
- 1989
- Silk:
- 2003
- E-Mail:
- kphanscombe@vicbar.com.au
Practice Profile
Dr Kristine Hanscombe's administrative law practice includes both judicial review and advice to government as to matters of legislative drafting and related issues. She is experienced in professional disciplinary matters, and related processes, mostly in relation to the legal profession. In addition Dr Hanscombe has substantial experience in merits review administrative matters, both in tribunals and on appeal, and has appeared as Counsel assisting in various types of executive inquiries. She assisted in the Ambulance Royal Commission with particular responsibility for the telecommunications engineering expert evidence. She has appeared for represented persons in other Royal Commissions.
Dr Hanscombe has also been briefed in commercial cases involving complex questions of trust and property law, and has a special interest in cases concerning engineering and scientific evidence. In addition she practises in deceased estates, including as to the construction of wills and related instruments.
In relation to commercial matters, Dr Hanscombe has a particular interest and experience in class actions, in the Federal Court and the Victorian Supreme Court. Cases of this type have included the GIO, Aristocrat Leisure and Mediaworld shareholders' cases, the Concept Sports multi-plaintiff proceeding, and the Contract Blinds industrial class action for breach of award and contract. She is briefed for the Applicant in De Brett Seafood Pty Ltd & Anor v Qantas Airways Ltd & Ors, (formerly Auskay Pty Ltd v Qantas Airways Ltd & Ors), a large cartel class action in the Federal Court concerning air cargo freight rates.
She is an active member of the Monash University Law School Faculty Board, the Advisory Board for the Clinical Program conducted by Monash Law School, and the Victorian Executive of the International Commission of Jurists.
Dr Hanscombe is accredited by the Victorian Bar as an Advanced Mediator, and a member of the national panels of expert mediators maintained by the Office of the Mediation Advisor under the Franchising and Oil Industry Codes of Conduct.
Memberships
- Victorian Bar Pro Bono Committee
- National Panels of Expert Mediators maintained by the Office of the Mediation Advisor under the Franchising and Oil Industry Codes of Conduct
- Monash University Law School Faculty Board
- Advisory Board for the Clinical Program conducted by Monash Law School
- Victorian Executive of the International Commission of Jurists
Commercial Law
Class Actions
De Brett Seafood Pty Ltd & Anor v Qantas Airways Ltd & Ors (Cartel class action)
Rod Investments (Vic) Pty Ltd v Clark [2005] VSC 449; (No 2) [2006] VSC 342; (No 3) [2007] VSC 306
Rod Investments (Vic) Pty Ltd v Abeyratne & Ors [2009] VSC 40; (No 2) [2009] VSC 278 (Media World shareholders' case)
Dorajay Pty Limited v Aristocrat Leisure Limited [2005] FCA 1483 (Shareholder class action)
Cadence Asset Management Pty Ltd v Concept Sports Limited [2005] FCAFC 265 (Multi-plaintiff action)
King v AG Australia Holdings Ltd (formerly GIO Australia Holdings Ltd) [2002] FCA 151; [2002] FCA 364; [2002] FCA 1560; [2002] FCA 872; [2002] FCAFC 230; [2003] FCA 652; [2003] FCA 212; [2003] FCA 1420; [2003] FCA 543; [2003] FCA 980 (Shareholder class action- settlement approval)
Equity and Commercial Law
Violet Home Loans Pty Ltd v Schmidt [2013] VSCA 56
Campbell's Cash and Carry Pty Ltd v Fostif Pty Ltd (2006) 229 CLR 386
Seachange Management Pty Ltd & Anor v Pital Business Pty Ltd (2009) 23 VR 396
Legal Services Board v Forster [2010] VSC 102
Competition Law
De Brett Seafood Pty Ltd & Anor v Quantas Airways Ltd & Ors formerly Auskay International Manufacturing & Trade Pty Ltd v Qantas Airways Limited [2010] FCAFC 96; [2010] FCA 1302; [2010] FCA 521; (No 2) [2010] FCAFC 129; (No 5) [2009] FCA 1464; [2008] FCA 1458
Industrial Relations
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union v Contract Blinds Pty Ltd [2009] FCA 572
Maritime Union of Australia v Patrick Stevedores Ltd & Ors [1998] 4 VR 143
Professional Discipline
Forster v Legal Services Board [2013] VSCA 73
Legal Services Commissioner v Stirling [2011] VCAT
Legal Services Commissioner v Brott [2011] VCAT 110
Legal Services Commissioner v Hession (Legal Practice) [2010] VCAT 1687
Legal Services Commissioner v Moore (Legal Practice) [2010] VCAT 742
Law Institute of Victoria v Brott (Legal Practice) [2007] VCAT 808
Deceased Estates
Unger v Sanchez [2009] VSC 541
Public Law
Discrimination
Nojin v Commonwealth; Prior v Commonwealth & Anor [2012] FCAFC 192
Administrative Law (Judicial Review)
Colquohoun & Ors v Capitol Radiology Pty Ltd [2013] VSCA 58
Clarke v National Mutual Life Assurance Ltd & Ors (No 2) [2010] VSCA 96
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited v Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs [2010] FCA 510
Bravehearts Inc v County Court of Victoria [2010] VSC 410
Melbourne Health & Ors v Lloyd & Ors [2009] VSC 370
Western Health v Gallichio & Ors [2009] VSC 134
Georgiou & Ors v Capitol Radiology Pty Ltd & Ors [2011] VSC 158
Royal Commissions
Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission 2010
Building and Construction Industry Royal Commission 2003
Metropolitan Ambulance Services Royal Commission 2001 (counsel assisting- with particular responsibility for the telecommunications engineering expert evidence)