YOUNG'S LIST - Key Persons


Alexandra Golding

Job Titles:
  • Doyle 's Guide Leading Insurance Junior Counsel
  • Doyle 's Guide Professional Indemnity Law Barrister Rankings
  • Insurance Junior Counsel
Alexandra Golding has been recognised in Doyle's Guide as Recommended Construction & Infrastructure Law Junior Counsel - Victoria 2024. Alexandra Golding named in Doyle's Guide Leading Insurance Junior Counsel, Victoria 2019 Alex Golding named in Doyle's Guide Leading Insurance Barristers 2017

Amy Hando

Job Titles:
  • Young 's List Barrister

Anna O'Callaghan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Honorary Secretary of the Commercial Bar Association
  • Commercial
Anna maintains a broad practice in commercial and public law. She also has a particular interest in matters where civil jurisdictions intersect with criminal law. Anna has advised and appeared, led and unled, on behalf of both private and government clients in matters in State and Federal Courts and tribunals. Anna is a sessional tutor in Trusts Law at Monash University and is an author for the Lexis Nexis looseleaf Court Forms, Precedents and Pleadings Victoria.

Campbell Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Editor of the Intellectual Property Section of the Australian Business Law Review
Campbell is the Editor of the Intellectual Property section of the Australian Business Law Review. He is a member of the Trans-National Committee of the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand. Campbell Thompson named in Doyle's Guide Leading Technology, Media & Telecommunications Barristers 2

Christine Melis

Christine is a LLB (Hons)/BA (Major in Politics) graduate of Monash University (2003).

Christopher McDermott

Job Titles:
  • Secretary of the Victorian Bar 's Indigenous Justice Committee
Christopher is the Secretary of the Victorian Bar's Indigenous Justice Committee. He is a member of the Industrial Bar Association Committee, the Australian Bar Association's Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and the Victorian Bar's LGBTIQ Working Group (which he helped to establish).

Daniel Aghion

Job Titles:
  • Counsel

Dr David Goodwin

Job Titles:
  • Lead RMIT 's MBA Programs
  • Professor and Dean of the University of Nottingham Business School in Malaysia
Since 2015 he has combined his academic career with a part-time practice at the Victorian Bar focused on Alternative Dispute Resolution, international trade and maritime law. Professor Goodwin is a past President of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand. In June 2023 he was appointed a Titulary Member of the Antwerp-based Comite Maritime International, the umbrella association of the world's national maritime law associations. He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), and a member of the arbitration panel of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand. In 2022 he was appointed to New South Wales Government Arbitration Panels constituted under the Mining Act and Petroleum (Onshore) Act. He is also a member of the Victorian Magistrates' Court Single List of External Mediators and a Nationally Accredited Mediator in Australia. Professor Goodwin signed the Bar Roll in 2010 after a business career of more than two decades, working initially as a corporate lawyer with the BHP Group before progressing into senior executive roles with publicly listed companies. This included periods as Vice President Corporate Affairs for the global shipping company Neptune Orient Lines of Singapore (2005-10), Executive Vice President Corporate Affairs for Bluescope Steel (2000-05), General Manager External Affairs for OneSteel, now Arrium (1998-2000) and as Legal Manager, then General Manager New Zealand of the Australian National Line (1989-94). In past academic roles Professor Goodwin was an Associate Professor at Victoria University in Melbourne (2019 to 2023) and a member of the faculty of RMIT University's Graduate School of Business and Law. At RMIT he was MBA Director (2016 to 2019) and Director of the Juris Doctor program (2015 to 2016). His current research interests concern alternative dispute resolution, maritime law, legal history, entrepreneurship, social procurement and business regulation.

Elizabeth Bateman

Job Titles:
  • Reporter for the Building and Construction
Elizabeth is a reporter for the Building and Construction Law Journal and appears in the AFL and AFWL Tribunal for Carlton Football Club. Elizabeth Bateman has been recognised in Doyle's Guide as Preeminent Construction & Infrastructure Law Junior Counsel - Victoria 2024.

Emma Poole

Job Titles:
  • Commercial
Emma accepts briefs primarily in commercial matters. Recent cases have included issues relating to contract, superannuation, trusts, professional liability and tort. Emma also advises in relation to complex procedural matters and has written practice notes for Thomson Reuters' Practical Law on Victorian Supreme Court practice and procedure. Emma graduated from Melbourne Law School with prizes in Property, Civil Procedure and Legal Research. She has a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford which she attended on an Allan Myers Oxford Scholars Scholarship. She also has a BA Hons in English Language and Literature from Oxford. Before joining the Bar Emma was at the Supreme Court of Victoria, first as Associate to the Honourable Justice Elliott and then as Executive Officer to the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that she worked in Geneva for the Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, a United Nations agency and as a professional actor in the UK, US and Australia. Emma is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) Company Directors' Course and a member of AIPPI Australia (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property). She is also an ambassador for Pembroke College, Oxford. She is currently Deputy Chair of the Bar's Innovation and Technology Committee and a member of the Victorian Bar News Committee. She read with Dr Michael Rush KC and her senior mentor is Colin Golvan AM KC.

Evelyn Tadros

Evelyn is a nationally accredited mediator and welcomes briefs to mediate in broad areas of practice. For a selection of the matters Evelyn has appeared in since coming to the Bar, please click here.

Fiona Cameron

Job Titles:
  • Co - Authors Article ‘Don'T Bank on It' in the December 2016 Issue of the LIJ ( Vic )
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • LIV Breakfast With Experts Webinar - County Court Referred Arbitration
Fiona is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a member of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand and a Grade 3 Arbitrator (Resolution Institute). She is a nationally accredited mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation Scheme. Fiona Cameron has been recognised in Doyle's Guide as Leading Construction & Infrastructure Law Junior Counsel - Victoria 2024. Fiona Cameron co-authors article ‘Don't bank on it' in the December 2016 issue of the LIJ (Vic)

Garry Bigmore

Job Titles:
  • KC Is Acknowledged As a Leader in His Field
He is listed in Doyle's Guide as a leading insolvency and restructuring senior counsel (Australia), a pre-eminent insolvency and restructuring senior counsel (Victoria) and a leading commercial litigation and dispute resolution senior counsel (Victoria). Garry is recognised in the Chambers & Partners Asia-Pacific Guide as "an acknowledged authority on bankruptcy and reconstruction law [who] also practises across a wide range of banking and finance and other financial services - related issues, including those arising in the insurance sector. He also acts on professional negligence and real estate issues". He is a current member and former Chair of the Bar's Innovation and Technology Committee and the Insolvency Law Section of the Commercial Bar Association.

Georgia Douglas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Queensland Bar Association
Georgia is the author of a legal blog examining current legal trends: www.withoutprejudice.blog and regularly presents CPDs on various topics, some of which are accessible above under the tab ‘Publications'. Georgia is also a member of the Queensland Bar Association. A copy of Georgia's CV can be found here.

Grant Lubofsky

Job Titles:
  • Expert

Jamie Grant

Job Titles:
  • Commercial
Jamie has a broad practice in commercial and public law. He has particular experience in insolvency, debt recovery and securities enforcement, corporate and commercial disputes, franchising, and construction. In the public law field, he has advised and appeared on both merits and judicial review matters in a diverse range of areas. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in New Zealand in 2010, where he regularly appeared as counsel on general commercial, construction, and insolvency matters before the District Courts, High Court and Court of Appeal. Jamie moved to Victoria in 2015, and subsequently worked in the insolvency, commercial disputes, and administrative law teams of a number of national Australian firms. Clients say that Jamie "has the ability to rapidly get across complex legal and evidentiary issues, and then cut across and present them in a persuasive and practical way." He holds a current New Zealand practising certificate, and accepts briefs to advise and appear on New Zealand matters. He has particular experience in cross-jurisdictional matters, including stay applications under the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act, and recognition and enforcement of judgments in each jurisdiction. Jamie also has a keen interest in electoral law, and has advised on electoral financing restrictions and appeared in electoral disputes. Jamie began legal practice as intern to Christopher Finlayson KC, then Attorney General of New Zealand. He read with Dr Charles Parkinson KC, and his senior mentor was David Batt KC. Matters with which Jamie has been involved include the following.

Jeremy Hallett

Job Titles:
  • Commercial
Prior to coming to the Bar, Jeremy was a solicitor practising in commercial litigation for over 10 years including most recently as the head of litigation and dispute resolution team at a large regional firm. He has conducted a wide variety of general commercial litigation in most state and federal jurisdictions, including regular appearances in contested matters and at mediations. He has particular experience and interest in insolvency, contracts, corporations law, and real property. Jeremy read with Damien McAloon. His senior mentor is Robert Heath KC.

John Heard

Job Titles:
  • Chairman the "Wear It Purple Day" Seminar

Robert Heath KC

Job Titles:
  • List Chair

Tammy Young

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Managing Director of Young 's List
Tammy Young is the founder and managing director of Young's List, which she founded in 2012. Tammy Young is a highly experienced clerk and former barrister and solicitor. Tammy Young is the founder and managing director of Young's List, which she founded in 2012. Tammy is a highly experienced clerk and former barrister and solicitor. Prior to launching Young's List in 2012, she gained extensive experience in commercial and taxation litigation at the Victorian Bar and in commercial law and litigation at large and mid-sized law firms. Tammy also served as an Associate to a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Her diverse background and extensive experience allows her to understand the needs of each client, recommend the best barrister for each case and efficiently assist solicitors and barristers. Under Tammy's leadership, Young's List has become a respected and successful independent boutique list of professionals, supported by a dedicated clerking team committed to excellent service.