Julia Lucas
- Commercial Law Employment & Industrial
- Public Law
She has extensive experience in public law and her practice includes advising and acting on behalf of and against a broad range of State and Commonwealth Government clients. She has particular expertise in judicial review of administrative decisions and actions.
Julia appears and advises in employment and industrial law related disputes. She has a particular interest and experience in the intersection between administrative and employment law. She has acted and advised in occupational health and safety prosecutions and in disciplinary tribunal proceedings.
Before coming to the bar, Julia was a Senior Lawyer at the Australian Government Solicitor, a Solicitor at the Crown Solicitor’s Office of South Australia and Associate to the Hon. Justice Sulan of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
At the bar, Julia read with Richard Knowles KC and her Senior Mentor is Rachel Doyle SC.
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation
Contact
- P03 9225 7029
- M0408 966 981
- F03 9225 8668
- E[email protected]
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Owen Dixon Chambers West
Level 11 Room 3
525 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Jane King
03 9225 8558
Expertise
- Competition
- Consumer Law
- Contractual Disputes
- Discrimination
- Employment Contracts
- Statutory Employment Rights
- Work Health & Safety
- Workers Compensation
- Administrative Law
- Appellate
- Civil & Human Rights
- Commissions & Inquiries
- Constitutional Law
- Customs Law
- Discrimination
- Extradition Law
- Environment
- Freedom of Information
- Immigration
- Judicial Review
- Privacy
- White Collar Crime
Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws & Legal Practice (Hons)
Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psych)
Diploma of Languages (French)
South Australia
Victoria
State and Territory Courts and Tribunals
Federal Court of Australia
High Court of Australia
French
Italian
Recent Cases
- Beechworth Lawn Tennis Club v Australian Sports Commission & Ors (acting for the Australian Sports Commission in sports rorts judicial review proceeding in the Federal Court of Australia, led by Richard Knowles KC) (resolved)
- Beechworth Lawn Tennis Club Inc v Australian Sports Commission [2021] FCA 990 (application for discovery) (led by Richard Knowles KC)
- Victoria Institute of Teaching v Adams – Acting for a teacher before the VIT Panel in disciplinary proceedings (led by Nicholas Green KC)
- Secretary, Department of Social Services v Doherty [2022] FCA 1242 – (statutory appeal on a question of law from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, on behalf of the Secretary) (unled)
- Watkins v Monash University (acting for WorkSafe Victoria in a prosecution under the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 (Vic) involving the alleged dismissal of an employee on the grounds that the employee took steps to lodge a WorkCover claim - resolved (led by Jenny Firkin KC, resolved)
- Heenan v Jetstar Australia & Anor (2020, VID368/2020, resolved) (on behalf of the applicant, disability discrimination, access to facilities and services) (led by Jenny Firkin KC with Laura Hilly)
- Coffey v WorkSafe Victoria (acting for the applicant in relation to an adverse action claim, resolved) (unled)
- Wynd and Australian Securities and Investments Commission [2020] AATA 3387 (acting on behalf of ASIC) (unled)
- The Commissioner for the Australian Federal Police v Fuhai Li and Fanwei Meng (acting for the AFP in relation to proceedings under the Proceeds of Crime Act, ongoing) (unled)
- AIU16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection & Anor [2020] HCATrans 40 (acting for the respondent in a High Court special leave application) (led by Richard Knowles KC)
- Traljesic v Bosnia and Herzegovina [2017] FCAFC 70 (Extradition) (led by Lisa De Ferrari)
- Swanton v Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission [2017] FCA 1142 (unled)
- BCR16 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (No 2) [2017] FCAFC 120 (led by Peter Gray SC)
- Rooney and National Disability Insurance Agency [2021] AATA 3523
- CYHY and National Disability Insurance Agency [2021] AATA 4751
- Sexton v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2022] FCA 1463 (unled)
- AVL15 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2022] FCA 452 (unled)
- Kura v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCA 1343 (unled)
- Sapkota v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCA 91 (unled)
- STZS v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2021] FCA 1140 (unled)
- DWX16 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2020] FCA 1688 (unled)
- Kura v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2020] FCA 1478 (unled)