Jack accepts briefs in appellate crime, regulatory prosecutions and civil penalty proceedings, public and administrative law, and commercial law. He appears regularly in the Court of Appeal, both led and unled, on appeals against conviction and sentence.
Recent matters include:
- Stephens v The Queen (2022) 96 ALJR 871 (led by O P Holdenson KC);
- DPP Reference No 1 of 2017 [2019] HCA 9; (2019) 364 ALR 407 (led by O P Holdenson KC);
- KMC v DPP (SA) (High Court - written submissions on constitutional issue, led by K Walker KC S-G);
- Glowacki v The King [2023] VSCA 176;
- Khoshaba v The King [2023] VSCA 65;
- DPP v Silivaai [2023] VSCA 19 (led by J Gullaci SC);
- Sultan v The King [2022] VSCA 205;
- Danny (a Pseudonym) v The Queen [2020] VSCA 8;
- Abdulfatah v The Queen [2019] VSCA 262;
- DPP (Cth) v Wang [2019] VSCA 250 (led by P Tehan KC).
Jack is also available to advise on matters concerning legal policy. He has advised the ACT Government on matters arising from the implementation of recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (with the Hon Justice Dodds-Streeton), and advised as to the recruitment and working arrangements of staff who work with judicial officers with a view to minimising sexual harassment risk factors (with the Hon Justice Dodds-Streeton).
In 2012-2013, Jack was Associate to the Hon Justice Weinberg of the Court of Appeal. He obtained first class honours in law at the University of Melbourne where he was an Assistant Editor of the Melbourne University Law Review.
Jack is a contributing author to Bourke’s Criminal Law Victoria in the areas of human rights law and lotteries, and a reporter for the Victorian Reports.
