Dr Ian Freckelton AO QC

Victorian Bar Appointments

VICTORIAN BAR ROLES

2016-2021: Member, Victorian Bar Council

2016-2019: Member, Victorian Bar Ethics Committee

2017-2021: Victorian Bar Audit and Finance Committee

2019-2020: Victorian Bar Pro Bono Committee

2020-2021: Victorian Bar Counsel Committee (Chair)

2016- 2018: Victorian Supreme Court Library Committee

2017: Victorian Bar CPD Committee

2011-2016: Representative of the Criminal Bar Association to the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences (Victorian Chapter)

2011-: Sometime instructor on Expert Evidence and Moot Court Assessor for the Victorian Bar Readers’ Course

2010-2013: Chair, List R (Howells, incorporating Lawrence’s List)

2010-2016: Member, Professional Standards Committee

2007 – : Participation (irregular) in the Readers Course as moot court judge

2007 : Chair, Bar sub-committee on Sterilisation of Intellectually Disabled Minors

2007- 2010 : Member of the Bar Care Subcommittee

2007- 2010: Member of the Human Rights Committee

2007- 2009 : Member of the Victorian Bar News Committee

2006-2010 Member, List Committee: List R (Howells)

2004 : Bar nominee to the DoHS Children’s Court legislation review

2002 : Bar nominee to the County Court Expert Evidence Committee

1993-1996: Bar nominee to National Institute of Forensic Science

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14 June 2021:Dr Freckelton was 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 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 to 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.