Laura accepts briefs in all areas of law.
Since coming to the bar, Laura has been briefed in matters involving:
- planning
- misleading conduct (environmental consumer law/’greenwashing’)
- judicial review of ministerial decisions (including major project approvals)
- environmental protection, including under the EPBC Act and state legislation.
Laura has particular expertise in climate change and climate litigation across a broad range of practice areas (commercial, public, and criminal law) and enjoys working with experts and expert evidence. She is a member of the NSW Bar Association (serving on the Climate Change Committee) as well as the Victorian Bar Association, and accepts briefs in all Australian jurisdictions.
Before coming to the bar, Laura practised as a solicitor at DLA Piper, and served as the Foote postdoctoral fellow in Climate Solutions at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, where she advised government and industry as well as the former US VP Al Gore, chair of the Climate Reality Project. Laura is a lecturer at Sydney Law School, where she recently served as Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law. She created and teaches the subject Environmental and Climate Science in Court (Sydney LLM).
Laura read with Katherine Brazenor and her senior mentors are Juliet Forsyth SC and Emrys Nekvapil SC.
Her surname is pronounced “Skay-ers”.
*Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation.
