Trina Malone

Before coming to the Bar, Trina worked as a senior lawyer within government, most recently in the public law and planning branch at the Victoria Government Solicitor’s Office. She advised government on a wide range of complex legal issues spanning constitutional, administrative and human rights law and statutory interpretation, and conducted litigation in State and Federal Courts. She was previously a senior lawyer at the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department working on matters involving public and international law, and an Associate to the Honourable Kate McMillan at the Supreme Court of Victoria (Common Law Division).

Trina holds a Bachelor of Arts and Law (First Class) from the University of Melbourne and a Masters of Law (First Class) and PhD in public law from the University of Cambridge. She was ranked first for the LLB subjects Evidence and Proof, Advanced Legal Research and Employment Law, and the LLM subject Legal and Political Philosophy. She has been a Research Fellow and lecturer in constitutional law for the JD program at Melbourne Law School, has taught human rights on the LLM program at the University of Cambridge, and has delivered practical training within government on statutory interpretation.

Trina is reading with Anna Lord, and her senior mentor is Kathleen Foley SC.

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