Peter Hanks QC

Chambers:

Level 6 Room 3
Joan Rosanove Chambers
550 Lonsdale Street Melbourne

Telephone:

03 9225 8815

Facsimile:

03 9225 7293

Signed Bar Roll:

1991

Silk:

1999

Also Admitted:

New South Wales, the High Court of Australia and the Federal Court

E-Mail:

peter.hanks@jr6.com.au

Practice Profile

Widely regarded as one of Victoria's leading Queen's Counsel, Peter Hanks practises predominantly in public law with a particular emphasis on administrative and constitutional law. 

Peter appears regularly for Commonwealth and State government agencies, and against those agencies, in the Federal Court, High Court, Supreme Court, Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He also regularly provides advice on administrative and constitutional law issues to Commonwealth and State government agencies, and to private parties in relation to their rights against those agencies.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Peter practised as a solicitor and has had over 25 years experience teaching constitutional law at the University of Sydney and Monash University. 

He is an accomplished author and has published several books on constitutional law and administrative law including Constitutional Law in Australia (3rd edition) and Australian Constitutional Law (7th edition). Peter has been a principal contributor to Butterworths' "High Court and Federal Court Practice" and "Administrative Law Service". 

Memberships

• Supreme Court Judicial Review and Appeals Users' Group
• Advisory Board of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne

Liability limited by a scheme approved under the Professional Standards Legislation.