Victorian Bar

And secondly, because I'd never encountered anything quite like that before in my life, as a middle-class young man who'd gone to Sunday school, been educated in the 60s to suddenly I find myself dealing with psychopaths, at least one psychopath, in Chris Lowry, and the horrific nature of the crime was truly shocking.

It was counterbalanced in my life by the integrity of the legal system and the way that, in those days, Victorian bar... had a pro bono scheme where people who couldn't afford to defend themselves charged with things like murder.

The senior silks at the Victorian bar volunteered to do a murder every few years, pro bono.

So if you look at the Victorian law reports, You'll find this, when you look at the murder trials in the 60s, for example, and the early 70s, you'll find this very strange collection of barristers who were senior silks representing people charged with murder.

Philip Napoleon Office, or in my case, Harry Ogden, Harold Ogden, who was a running down lawyer, acted for Charlie King, and Davin Wright, who was a commercial equity insurance lawyer, acted for Chris Lowry.

The Honourable Justice Taylor was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria in July 2018 and to the Court of Appeal in October 2022.

She had previously practised as a lawyer for 25 years, including 20 years as a barrister at the Victorian Bar where she was appointed King's Counsel in 2011.

As counsel, Justice Taylor primarily undertook criminal cases, both prosecuting and defending.

She has also worked in various international bodies.

In 2011, she was Senior Advisor to the Special Independent Commission of Inquiry in Kyrgyzstan.

Justice Taylor has also taught advocacy internationally in Uganda in both 2015 and 2017 and in Cambodia in 2016.

Amanda Carruthers is a barrister at the Victorian Bar and with Foley's List.

Her practice is broad range of insolvency, commercial law and dispute resolution matters at a trial and appellate level.

That instinct has taken Raylene through an extraordinary range of roles.

She began her career in the Victorian OPP, went on to work at the then Australian Crime Commission and with the United Nations in Lebanon before being called to the Victorian Bar in twenty ten.

In twenty twenty-three, she was appointed Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, leading an office responsible for prosecuting offenses against Commonwealth law across an enormous and varied jurisdiction.

Through all of these fascinating but demanding roles, exercise has been one of the ways Raylene has found some semblance of balance, never more so than in two thousand and nine when she was engaged by the League of Arab States to work on the independent fact-finding committee on Gaza.