Renée Enbom KC has a broad practice encompassing defamation, police torts, public inquiries, class actions, insurance matters and general commercial disputes.
Renée has extensive experience in public inquiries, having both chaired an inquiry and represented parties in most major Australian inquiries over the past decade. In 2025, she was appointed Chair of the Board of Inquiry into the McCrae landslide. Her final report is available here: https://www.mccraeinquiry.vic.gov.au/.
Her inquiry appearance work includes acting for Victoria Police, former Chief Commissioners Christine Nixon and Ken Lay and individual police members in the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants (2019–20). She has also appeared in numerous other inquiries, including the Yoorrook Justice Commission; MRH-90; defence and veteran suicide; violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability; misconduct in the banking, superannuation and financial services industry; and the Black Saturday bushfires. She is currently acting in the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.
Renée has appeared in many significant defamation cases. In the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in Australia, she was recognised by her peers as “Lawyer of the Year” in defamation.
Her class action experience includes acting for the State of Victoria and individual Ministers in the Hotel Quarantine class action, as well as appearing in major proceedings including Roo-Roofing (the Commonwealth’s Home Insulation Program), the Murrindindi bushfires, and the Centro, GPT, Newcrest, Korean Air Lines and MLC class actions.
Renée is currently Deputy Chairperson of the AFL Tribunal and has acted in a wide range of sporting disputes, including the anti-doping proceedings involving the Essendon Football Club. She was recognised as “Lawyer of the Year” in sports law in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in Australia.
Renée is named in the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in Australia for commercial law, defamation and media law, and sports law.
Renée has served on the Victorian Bar Ethics Committee.
A selection of recent cases in which Renée has appeared is as follows:
- 5 Boroughs NY Pty Ltd v State of Victoria & Ors (No 7) [2026] VSC 54.
- A.I. Film Production Limited v Rebel Wilson [2025] NSWSC 1110.
- Mond v The Age Company Pty Limited [2025] FCA 442.
- Police Member 1 (a pseudonym) & Anor v Antonios Sajih Mokbel & Anor [2025] VSCA 34.
- Nassif v Harbour Radio Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 466.
- Al Muderis v Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd [2024] FCA 204; [2024] FCA 136; [2023] FCA 1623.
- Tucker v McKee & State of Victoria [2024] FCA 199; [2023] FCA 1335; (2022) 292 FCR 666.
- ASIC v Layaway Depot Pty Ltd [2023] FCA 1685.
- Hun v Aljazeera International (Malaysia) [2023] FCA 1103.
- Lehrmann v Network Ten Pty Ltd [2023] FCA 385.
- Chief Commissioner of Police v Paterson [2023] VSC 172.
- ASIC v Westpac Banking Corporation [2022] FCA 515.
- Porter v Australian Broadcasting Corporation [2021] FCA 863.
*Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation
