Lucy Line

Lucy M E Line practises in regulatory and disciplinary matters involving civil or criminal penalties. These include: occupational health and safety breaches; Fair Work Act breaches; proceedings regulating workers (especially in the legal, medical and teaching professions and in the finance, real estate and aviation industries); breaches of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and contraventions of discrimination law. Lucy also practises in employment law, public law, professional negligence and defamation. 

Lucy graduated from the University of Tasmania with First Class Honours in Arts and Law, and was awarded the University Medal and the prize for the Best Graduating Law Student, amongst other prizes. Lucy later read for a Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. Lucy was an Associate to Justice Almond at the Supreme Court of Victoria. She is admitted as an attorney in California, and is also a member of the Tasmanian Bar, having resided in both places. She has taught ethics, employment law, and public law at Monash University as a Senior Fellow and also teaches at the University of Tasmania as an Adjunct Lecturer. Lucy has published several legal articles and has co-authored law reform reports. Lucy's published work has been referenced, for example, in the Final Report of the Royal Commission into the Management of Police Informants, 2020.

Lucy regularly advises government agencies in regulatory and public law matters. She is available to act in inquiries, having been briefed in the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings, and the Inquiry into the Conviction of David Harold Eastman for the Murder of Colin Stanley Winchester. She is also available for investigations, having conducted numerous complex workplace investigations, including in response to whistleblower disclosures. 

A member of the Victorian Bar's Ethics Committee, Lucy also advises and appears in matters involving ethical questions relating to legal practice e.g. conflicts of interest, privilege, and confidentiality. 

Lucy is available to appear throughout Australia.