Our guest this episode is The Hon Anthony North KC. Tony has been involved in some of the largest cases in Australian history as both a barrister and a judge, including the pilots strike in the late 1980’s, the Patricks waterfront dispute, the Tampa Affair and multiple native title cases. He is currently the chair of the Victorian Law Reform Commission, working on many fascinating projects, including the incredibly important work of Improving the Response of the Justice System to Sexual Offences.

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This week we welcome His Honour, Magistrate Rob Stary. Rob grew up in the western suburbs of Melbourne and has remained strongly connected to the area throughout his life and career. Rob is probably best known for his long and often highly publicised work as a criminal defence lawyer, having been engaged by the likes of Tony Mokbel and Carl Williams among many others. He became a Magistrate in 2021 beginning another interesting chapter in his long and dynamic life in the law.

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Today we welcome Dan Meagher, Professor and Chair of Law at Deakin University. As we’ll hear, despite studying law and doing his articles, Dan initially tried fairly hard to avoid a life in the law, until he found academia or perhaps more accurately until it found him. Dan specialises in constitutional law; lecturing, studying and publishing in the topic all over the world, and in the lead up to this year’s referendum, it is  truly enlightening to hear his insights on the proposed Voice to Parliament.

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This week we welcome The Hon Justice Michael Croucher KC. Amazingly, His Honour dropped out of school in year 10, at the ripe old age of 15, to pursue his dream of becoming a professional motocross rider. Fortunately for us that didn’t work out and he made his way to the law, ultimately becoming a Victorian Supreme Court Justice. It’s a fascinating tale, and we’re delighted to bring you Justice Croucher’s Life in the Law. 

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Today we welcome Lauren Cruickshank to the show. Lauren is an associate at Pinsent Masons, specialising in Construction Law. In her teens Lauren had two big goals; to be a teacher and to go to the Paralympics for discus - neither of which eventuated. But as we’ll hear, after a chance work experience placement in year 10 Lauren found her passion and she hasn’t looked back. 

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Our guest Glenn Broome has spent most of his career as a community worker, supporting boys and later men caught up in the criminal justice system. Glenn is incredibly good at what he does and that’s no doubt due in part to his own lived experience as a boy and young man doing time in juvenile detention and Pentridge prison. 

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This week your host Michael Green speaks with Ali Besiroglu, principal lawyer at Robinson Gill and head of their Crime and Advocacy department. 

In recent years Ali has been involved in some incredibly significant and high profile cases, not least of which is the recent coronial inquest into the death in custody of Veronica Nelson.

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Our guest this episode is His Honour Justice Paul Coghlan AO. His life in the law has taken him from the Deputy Crown Solicitors Office to the bar, from Director of Public Prosecutions to a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria - and somewhere along the way he was also Mayor of Fitzroy! He is a wealth of knowledge and among other things, shares with us his approach to prosecuting, to witnesses and to juries, and his experience making case cracking deals in the early days of the gangland murders trials.

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Throughout her life in the law The Hon Jennifer Coate has been a Magistrate, the Head of the Children’s Court, a County Court Judge, Victorian State Coroner, one of the commissioners in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and most recently, Chair of the COVID 19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry. She has had an extraordinary career and made an enormous contribution to the Victorian legal system. It was an honour to hear about her Life in the Law.

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From everyone at Lives in the Law and all the staff at Greens List we wish you a happy and safe Festive Season.