Trina Malone

Before coming to the Bar, Trina was a senior lawyer within government. Most recently, Trina worked in the public law and planning branch at the Victoria Government Solicitor’s Office, where she advised government on a wide range of complex legal issues spanning constitutional, administrative, human rights and employment 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. In this role she obtained 'Negative Vetting 2' security clearance (NV2) from the Australian Government Security Vetting Agency. Trina started her career as a lawyer at Maurice Blackburn and has also worked as an Associate to the Honourable Kate McMillan at the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Trina holds a Bachelor of Arts and Law (First Class) from the University of Melbourne. She also has a Master of Laws (First Class) and PhD in public law from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Cambridge (Australia) Trust and J C Hall Scholar. She was ranked first for the LLB subjects Employment Law, Evidence and Proof and Advanced Legal Research, 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. Her publications include a paper on labour-hire arrangements published by the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations, cited in a Victorian inquiry into insecure work.

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

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