Dr Julian Murphy

Julian accepts briefs in all areas of public law, particularly criminal, administrative and constitutional law, as well as torts and class actions against public authorities. He is a member of the VLA Criminal Trial Preferred Barrister List.

Julian has appeared unled in jury trials, bench trials, appeals, judicial review proceedings and inquiries, including in the Full Court of the Federal Court, the Victorian Court of Appeal, the Victorian Supreme Court and other intermediate and first instance courts across Australia, including coroners' courts. Julian has also appeared (led) in the High Court.

Some of Julian's recent cases include (full list behind 'cases' tab):
-      Re Mokbel (No 6) [2024] VSC 305 (led by J Condon KC);
-      ASF17 v Commonwealth of Australia [2024] HCA 19 (led by C Lenehan SC and T Wood);
-      Ismail v Minister for Immigration ... [2024] HCA 2 (led by D Hooke SC and J Donnelly);
-      Joran v The King [2024] NTCCA 1 (unled, opposed to NT DPP);
-     Rohen v The King [2024] VSCA 1.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Julian worked as the Criminal Appeals Manager at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency and as a Judge’s Associate at the High Court of Australia.

Julian is an Honorary Fellow at the Melbourne Law School, having earlier undertaken his PhD there. He also holds an LLM from Columbia University, where he graduated first in the class. Julian's scholarship has been published in Australian and international journals (full list behind 'publications' tab) and he is a co-author of the book Criminal Laws Northern Territory (Federation Press, 3rd ed, 2021).

Julian sits on the Bar's Indigenous Justice Committee, and has previously sat for three years on the Human Rights Committee. He read with Christopher Carr SC and his senior mentors were Felicity Gerry KC and Christopher Horan KC.