Our Public Law team has extensive experience in the areas of administrative law, human rights law, information access laws, statutory interpretation and public accountability frameworks. We support our government clients with focused strategic guidance regarding policy development, decision making, governance and compliance, complaint resolution and litigation.
Our expertise gives us a strong understanding of the political, social and commercial sensitivities our government clients face.
We help departments and agencies with regulatory responsibilities to execute their powers and work effectively with their constituents. We also provide our clients advice in relation to effective decision making. We understand the environmental pressures upon our government clients and help to navigate them.
We have worked with the Victorian Government since 1994, we have been proud members of the Victorian Government's legal panel since its inception and we act for a range of departments and agencies across the whole of the government.
Also, as a member of the Whole of Australian Government Legal Services panel (formerly known as the Legal Services Multi-User List), we act for Australian Government clients across a range of departments and agencies, providing a variety of services.
We also work with national law bodies such as the Australia Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and organisations contracted to provide government services and functions such as medical colleges accredited to train medical specialists.
For our local government clients, we undertake specialty work in local laws, road law, delegations, council drainage responsibilities, council meeting procedures, conflict of interest, code of conduct and councillor behavioural matters (including IBAC) and councillor conduct applications. We also conduct administrative law matters for councils including privacy matters, freedom of information, human rights and other matters.