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Experience

Maree has a busy trial and appellate practice, specialising in common law and public and administrative law disputes. She primarily accepts briefs in Victorian and Tasmanian matters.

Maree completed a Master of Law degree at the University of Cambridge, on a scholarship from the Cambridge Trusts. She also has a First Class Honours undergraduate degree in law from the University of Tasmania.


Previously, Maree was an Associate to the Honourable Justice Neave of the Victorian Court of Appeal, and a Senior Associate in the Litigation practice group at Allens. She is a reporter for the Victorian Reports and a member of the Dever’s List Committee and the ABA Ethics Committee.

A summary of Maree’s recent experience follows:

Administrative and public law

Between 2021 and 2023, Maree was Counsel Assisting the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings (led by E Bennett SC). She has significant Royal Commission experience, having represented clients in the Banking, Aged Care and Disability Royal Commissions.

She regularly appears in judicial review proceedings in the Supreme Courts of Victoria and Tasmania. Recent cases include:

• Toll Holdings Ltd v Victorian WorkCover Authority [2023] VSC 567 (led by P Solomon KC)

• Bob Brown Foundation & Ors v Barnett & Ors, 2023, Full Court of the Tasmanian Supreme Court, reserved (led by M O’Farrell SC)

• Asuramanage v Anglican Aged Care Services Group & Ors [2023] VSC 525 (leading C Viney)

• Victorian WorkCover Authority v Putrus [2023] VSCA 20 (led by C Harris KC)

• Hartill-Law v Stratford (Vic) 1 Pty Ltd & Ors [2022] VSC 472

• Akbari v Victorian WorkCover Authority & Ors [2022] VSC 84

• Ryan v Disler [2021] VSC 411

• Lefevre v Director of Housing [2021] TASSC 33

In addition to the above appearance work, Maree is regularly briefed to provide advice to government departments and statutory authorities. Maree is also available for inquiry and investigation work.

Personal injuries and tort

Maree currently acts personal injuries and property damage claims in the Supreme Courts of Victoria and Tasmania.

She has particular experience in historical child sexual abuse and appellate cases, including:

• Connelly v Transport Accident Commission [2024] VSCA 20 (led by J Ruskin KC)

• Steen v Trustees of the Diocese of Tasmania [2024] TASSC 3 (led by K Read SC)

• Rennie v State of Victoria [2023] VSC 762 (leading S Scully)

• Baumgartner v VWA [2022] VSCA 21

• Randhawa v TAC [2021] VSCA 135 (led by J Ruskin QC)

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