Jessica Fallar

Jessica Fallar accepts briefs in all areas of criminal law and quasi-criminal law from both prosecution and defence with particular interest in high-level research, submissions and appearance. She enjoys circuit work. 

Jessica is a Victoria Legal Aid Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister. Additionally, she has undertaken cultural awareness training provided by Kellawan Indigenous Consultants for persons who are members of Aboriginal communities.

At the Victorian Bar Jessica has appeared as junior counsel or without a leader in the following cases –

• DPP v Ho Kiem Pham and Ors [2010] VSCA 181 – the first Director's appeal against sentence under the Criminal Procedure Act 2009;
• Ignatova v The Queen [2010] VSCA 263;
• Tognolini v The Queen [2011] HCATrans 303 – special leave application to the High Court;
• Middendorp v The Queen [2012] VSCA 47;
• Tasevski v The Queen [2014] VSCA 135;
• Boulton v The Queen; Clements v The Queen; Fitzgerald v The Queen [2014] VSCA 342 – the first ever guideline judgment in Victoria.

Before coming to the Bar –

• From 1991 to 2005 Jessica worked as a digital special effects editor and graphics designer in feature films, television commercials, network news and promotions. She supervised television shoots and designed websites.
• In 2004 Jessica was admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand and engaged in commercial law, property, estates, wills and trusts. She then moved to Melbourne and worked in the litigation departments of Freehills and Australian Government Solicitor before becoming a Judge’s Associate to His Honour Judge Howard in the County Court of Victoria. In 2008 she moved to the OPP’s Specialist Sex Offences Unit and then in the Higher Court Appeals Unit. In 2010 she signed the Victorian Bar Roll.