Emily’s background is in commercial litigation, with a specific focus on building, construction and town planning disputes, often involving State and local government.

Most recently, she was Associate to the Honourable Justice Peter Gray in the Federal Court of Australia. Before that role, she was a Senior Solicitor with the Victorian Department of Human Services, where she advised on a considerable number of projects involving public housing developments, the implementation of Working with Children Checks, workplace discrimination, government contracting, legislative drafting, supported residential services, Commonwealth-State funding arrangements and intellectual property.

In private practice, she acted for and against the State government on disputes involving major construction projects, including advising the project inspector appointed to the Basslink Project and a secondment to the John Holland Group on-site at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre development. She has had the conduct of domestic building and town planning disputes at VCAT (including a town planning appeal to the Supreme Court of Victoria), acting for developers, builders, home owners and retailers. More generally, she has experience in the areas of property, retail and commercial leases, debt recovery, testators’ family maintenance and insolvency.

Emily is currently completing a Master of Laws degree at the University of Melbourne and is a non-resident tutor at Ormond College in the areas of Administrative and Property law. She is committed to social justice and is looking forward to developing a practice in administrative and public law. She is reading with Richard Niall.

Previous Employment:
Solicitor, Holding Redlich and Ebsworth & Ebsworth; Senior Solicitor, Department of Human Services; Associate to Justice Gray, Federal Court of Australia