Elizabeth practises primarily in commercial and public law.
She also accepts briefs in employment and industrial relations matters. She is frequently briefed as junior counsel in complex matters and appeals and also appears unled in final hearings and contested interlocutory applications. She has appeared in the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia (at first instance and on appeal to the Full Court) and State Supreme Courts and Tribunals. She also has an active advisory practice.
Elizabeth has been recognised in Doyle’s Guide Leading Administrative and Public Law Junior Counsel in Victoria (2024).
Before coming to the Bar, Elizabeth was a senior associate to the Hon Justice Nettle AC and subsequently an associate to the Hon Justice Gordon AC at the High Court of Australia. Prior to this, she was a solicitor in commercial litigation at Herbert Smith Freehills.
Elizabeth holds a Master of Law (First Class) from the University of Cambridge, where she studied as a Supreme Court of Victoria Trinity Hall Scholar, and a Juris Doctor (First Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne. She also holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and has lectured in Torts in the JD program at Melbourne Law School. During 2025-2026, she holds an appointment as a Visiting Researcher at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law.
Elizabeth is a Director and Treasurer of the Victorian Bar Foundation, the Victorian Bar’s charitable trust. She read with Caryn van Proctor and her senior mentor is Alistair Pound SC (Solicitor-General of Victoria).
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