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Victorian Bar Mentoring of Readers

Before Dr Freckelton was appointed a Senior Counsel, he was mentor to the following readers at the Bar:

1. Andrew Palmer (1999-2000), now Andrew Palmer SC (2018)

2. Nicholas Kanarev (2000-2001)

3. Nick Dubrow (2002)

4. Michael Schulze (2003)

5. Anita Spitzer (2003)

6. Baptista Lai (2004)

7. Magda Karagiannakis (2005)

8. Justine Copley (2005)

9. Esther James (2006)

10. Vinod Nath (2007)

11. Kyriaki Vavoulis (2007-2008)

Victorian Bar Senior Mentoring of Readers

Since Dr Freckelton was appointed a Senior Counsel, he has been a Senior Mentor to the following readers at the Bar:

1. Anna Goldthorp (2008-2009)

2. Jonathan Hirst (2010-2011)

3. Viola Nadj (2011)

4. Michelle Wilson (2013)

5. Scott Davison (2017)

6. Harry Lewis (2017)

7. Joanne Poole (2018)

In this section:

Latest News

11 October 2021: Dr Freckelton & Monika Pekevska reported on the effectiveness of Victoria’s gambling regulator, the VCGLR

8 October 2021: Dr Freckelton appointed Special Senior Counsel to the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse and Neglect of Persons with a Disability

22 September 2021: Forensic Analysis – Scientific and Medical Techniques and Evidence under the Microscope (edited by Freckelton) published by Intech Open

31 August 2021: Pandemics, Public Health Emergencies and Government Powers (by Bennett and Freckelton) published by Federation Press

25 August 2021: Dr Freckelton recognised by Doyle’s Guide amongst the Leading Barristers in Australia in Administrative Law, Public Law and Judicial Review

14 June 2021:Dr Freckelton appointed an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia for “distinguished service to the law, and to the legal profession, across fields including health, medicine and technology.”

15 April 2021: Dr Freckelton recognised by “Best Lawyers Australia” for “Public Law”

February 2021: Dr Freckelton completed 25 years’ service as a lawyer member of the Mental Health Tribunal of Victoria (including a period as its Acting President)

November 2020: Dr Freckelton was re-elected for a 5th consecutive year as a member of the Victorian Bar Council

21 August 2020: Dr Freckelton was included among Leading Criminal Law Senior Counsel in Victoria by Doyle’s Guide 2020

13 November 2019: Dr Freckelton was re-elected for a 4th year to the Victorian Bar Council

8 November 2019: Dr Freckelton given award at Singapore ANZAPPL Conference for 25 years of editing of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

9 October 2019: Dr Freckelton appointed to the editorial board of the Tort Law Review

27 September 2019: Publication of I Freckelton, Expert Evidence: Law, Practice, Procedure and Advocacy (6th edition, Thomson Reuters)

6 September 2019: Dr Freckelton QC awarded status of Outstanding Alumnus of Griffith University in Arts, Humanities and Law

22 August 2019: Included among Leading Criminal Law Senior Counsel in Victoria by Doyle’s 2019

20 February 2019: Dr Freckelton QC (with colleagues) awarded the 2019 Victorian Bar Public Interest / Justice Innovation Award for work on the Barwon Children’s case in the Victorian Supreme Court

November 2018: Dr Freckelton was re-elected to the Victorian Bar Council

9 May 2018: Launch of I Freckelton and K Petersen (ed), Tensions and Traumas in Health Law (Federation Press) by Justice Kevin Bell AM and Dr Joanna Flynn AM.

November 2017: winner of the Tim McCoy Award along with other members of counsel and the Human Rights Law Centre for the Barwon Children’s case

November 2017: Dr Freckelton was re-elected to the Victorian Bar Council

11 October 2017: the President of the Republic of Nauru, the Hon Baron Divavesi Waqa, MP, appointed Dr Freckelton a Judge of the Supreme Court of Nauru

17 March 2017: the University of Melbourne conferred on Dr Freckelton QC the degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD).

February 2017: Dr Freckelton QC appointed a member of the Australian Advisory Panel on the Medicinal Use of Cannabis by the federal Minister for Health, the Hon Greg Hunt MP.

16 August 2016: Launch of Scholarly Misconduct (OUP, 2016) at a Panel Discussion by Professor Doherty, Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine, Justice Redlich of the Victorian Court of Appeal and Professor Karen Day

March 2016: Dr Freckelton QC was reappointed until 2021 as a Member of the Mental Health Tribunal of Victoria

February 2016: Expert Evidence and Criminal Jury Trials by Ian Freckelton QC, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Jacqui Horan and Blake McKimmie was published by OUP

In January 2016: the 6th edition of Indictable Offences in Victoria by Ian Freckelton and Kerryn Cockroft was published by Thomson Reuters.

January 2015: Dr Freckelton QC was appointed a Special Commissioner at the Victorian Law Reform Commission to lead its reference on the Medicinal Uses of Cannabis

2014: Dr Freckelton QC was reappointed to the Coronial Council of Victoria

July 2014: Dr Freckelton QC appointed a member of the Mental Health Tribunal of Victoria

August 2013: the 5th edition of Ian Freckelton and Hugh Selby, Expert Evidence: Law, Practice, Procedure and Advocacy (Thomson Reuters) was published

July/August 2013: Bernadette McSherry and Ian Freckelton, Coercive Care: Rights, Law and Policy (Routledge, 2013) published.

July 2013: Dr Freckelton SC was re-appointed to the Suitability Panel of Victoria

February 2013: Dr Freckelton appointed to an expert advisory committee of the Law Reform Commission of Victoria in relation to a reference to review the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 (Vic).

September 2012: Dr Freckelton elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia.

May 2012: Dr Freckelton elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

April 2012: Dr Freckelton appointed an Ambassador for Club Melbourne.