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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. 

 

  

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation. The information referred to above has been supplied by the barrister concerned. Neither Victorian Bar Inc nor the barrister's clerk have independently verified the accuracy or completeness of the information and neither accepts any responsibility in that regard.

Admitted

12 Dec 2008

Victorian Bar

23 Oct 2014

Areas of Expertise

    Environment and Planning 1 Areas

    • Animal Welfare

    Appellate 1 Areas

    • Appellate Merits Review

    Corporations Law 2 Areas

    • ASIC investigations and Prosecutions
    • Directors and Officers Claims

    Public Administrative 17 Areas

    • Civil and Human Rights
    • Compliance and Investigations
    • Constitutional Law
    • Corruption
    • Customs
    • Disciplinary Proceedings
    • Discrimination
    • Extradition – Public Administrator
    • Health and Medical
    • Judicial Review and Administrative Law
    • Liquor Licensing
    • Merits Review
    • Native Title
    • Privacy or Freedom of Information
    • Proceeds of Crime
    • Public Administrative Appellate
    • Social Security and Veteran Entitlements

    Commercial 4 Areas

    • Commercial Class Actions
    • Insurance and Professional Negligence
    • Professional Liability
    • Restraint of Trade

    Inquests Inquiries 2 Areas

    • Commissions or Tribunals and Other Inquiries
    • Coronial Inquests

    Criminal 4 Areas

    • Environmental and Planning Offences
    • Fraud
    • White Collar and Corporate Crime
    • Work Health and Safety - Criminal

    Technology and Media Law 1 Areas

    • Defamation

    Industrial Employment 6 Areas

    • Employment Contracts and Restraint of Trade
    • Industrial Disputes and Statutory Employment Rights
    • Industrial Employment Appellate
    • Industrial Employment Discrimination
    • Public Sector Appeals
    • Work Health and Safety

    Equity 4 Areas

    • Family Provision
    • Guardianship and Administration
    • Powers of Attorney
    • Wills and Probate

    Government

    International 2 Areas

    • International Commercial Arbitration
    • Private International Law

    Common Law and Personal Injury 4 Areas

    • Judicial Review - Motor Accidents
    • Judicial Review: Workers Compensation
    • Medical Negligence
    • Professional Negligence

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