Dr Ian Freckelton Q.C.

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.