G Tony Pagone AM KC
QUALIFICATIONS B.A., Dip. Ed., LL.B (Monash), LL.M (Cambridge), LLD (Melbourne)
ADMITTED 1980 BAR 1985
YEAR APPOINTED SILK 1996
CHAMBERS ACK 3101
CLERK CONTACT 03 9225 7999
PHONE 9225 7999
EMAIL eapagone@pagone.com.au
LOTE Italian
AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Arbitration
- Arbitration Mediation ADR
- Arbitrators
- Arbitrators International
- Banking and Finance
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Building and Construction
- Class Actions
- Commercial Law
- Common Law
- Competition Law
- Constitutional
- Corporations
- Customs / Shipping / Maritime
- Disciplinary Tribunals
- Employment / Industrial
- Energy and Infrastructure
- Environment
- Equal Opportunity / Discrimination
- Equity / Equitable Relief / Trusts
- Expert Determination
- Franchising
- Human Rights
- Immigration / Migration
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- International / Conflicts of Law
- International Arbitration
- Mediators
- Mining Law
- Probate / Wills / Part IV
- Professional Negligence
- Property Law
- Public Law
- Schemes Of Arrangement
- Securities
- Sports Law
- Superannuation
- Taxation Law
- Trade Practices
ENQUIRIES: dever@vicbar.com.au
Experience
G Tony Pagone practises in all as aspects of litigation, including arbitration, mediation and advice.
Tony Pagone retired from the Federal Court of Australia where he had been the national co‑ordinating judge of the Taxation National Practice Area. Before his appointment to the Federal Court he was a judge of the trial division of the Supreme Court of Victoria and had been the judge in charge of the Commercial Court of that Court. He graduated from Monash University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Laws and from Cambridge University with a Master of Laws in 1983. In 2014 he was awarded an LLD from the University of Melbourne for his research and published work on anti‑tax avoidance provisions.
He was admitted in Victoria as a legal practitioner in 1980, signed the roll of counsel in 1985, and was appointed Queen’s Counsel for Victoria in 1996. He practised widely in taxation law, commercial law, administrative law, constitution law, public and human rights law during his career at the Bar. He was also Special Counsel to the Australian Taxation Office between 2002 and 2004. He is a professorial fellow of the Melbourne Law School and lectures in several post-graduate courses at the Melbourne Law School and from time to time in the Law Faculty at Monash University. He was President of the International Association of Judges from 2018-2021, is now an Honorary President and had been on the board of the International Association of Tax Judges.
He was appointed in October 2022 to the board of the International Institute for Justice Excellence.