Practice Areas

Employment & Industrial

Discrimination 

Workplace Health & Safety

Commercial

Torts

Equity

Constitutional

Administrative

Professional Discipline

Qualifications

Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction) - University of Oxford

Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours and the University Medal in Law) - Australian National University

Appointments

ACT Bar representative, Law Council of Australia EOC Committee

Chair, ACT Bar Association EEO Committee

Subcommittee Member, Women Lawyers Association ACT Policy Sub-committee

Memberships

Australian Labour Law Association

Women’s Legal Centre ACT & Region

Women Lawyers Association ACT

Women Lawyers Association NSW

Canberra Women in Business

ACT Bar Association

NSW Bar Association (class B)

About

Prue accepts briefs in a variety of areas including appeals, administrative, commercial, constitutional, coronial, discrimination, employment and industrial, human rights, professional discipline, and work health and safety law. She accepts briefs across jurisdictions.

Before joining the Bar in 2016, Prue worked for national and international law firms in Australia and Hong Kong, including King & Wood Mallesons and Linklaters.

Prue graduated from the Australian National University in 2002 with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Law. She went on to work as the associate to the Honourable Dyson Heydon AC KC on the High Court of Australia. She later undertook further study at Oxford University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) with Distinction and the Herbert Hart Prize in Jurisprudence. She has been an associate lecturer at the ANU law school for a number of years.

Prue is Vice-President of the ACT Bar Association, board member of the Legal Aid Commission ACT, Chair of the ACT Bar Equal Opportunity Committee, member of the Law Council of Australia Equal Opportunity Committee, and member of the Women Lawyers Association ACT policy committee (for which she previously served as President).

curriculum vitae

Select Cases

Brown v Tasmania [2017] HCA 43 (led by Bret Walker SC and Jonathon Redwood) 

In the matter of Banksia Securities Ltd (in liq) (receivers and managers appointed) [2017] NSWSC 540 (led by Robert Dick SC) 

Commissioner, Australian Building and Construction Commission v Dean Hall & Ors CAG78/2014 Federal Circuit Court of Australia (judgment pending) (led by Trish McDonald SC)

Thidart Wongkhosawan v Majestic Mushrooms Pty Ltd [2017] FWC 3974

Oliver v Australian Capital Territory Justice and Community Safety Directorate [2017] FCCA 1126

Samani & Mahmoodian v Commissioner for ACT Revenue [2017] ACAT 93

R v Mitchell [2017] ACTSC; SCC 274 of 2016 (led by Stephen Whybrow)

Publications

The Weinstein Factor, Ethos: Official Publication of the Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory, Issue 247, March 2018

Employers and Avoidance Tactics: What are you Implying?, Hong Kong Law Journal, Volume 43(2), 2013

Anti-avoidance: A new implied term for contracts of employment?, Ethos: Official Publication of the Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory, Issue 229, September 2013

Section 70 of the Employment Ordinance: Does it Stand in the way of Employers and Employees Settling Matters Once and for All?, Hong Kong Law Journal, Volume 40(3), 2010

The Impact of WorkChoices on Annual and Personal Leave, Public Holidays and Maximum Working Hours, Australian Law Librarian, Volume 14(3), 2006

The Case for Felony Murder, Flinders Journal of Law Reform, Volume 9(2), 2006

Booking hearings, mediations or conferences

Prue has an online booking page where you can schedule a hearing, mediation or conference directly into her calendar. Through this system you (and Prue) will also have the ability to cancel or reschedule your booking as you require.

You can also use this system to scroll through and check the days/times when Prue is available (non-available days are indicated with “n/a”). If it is essential that you make a booking on a day/time when Prue is not available, it is best to send Prue an email to enquire whether any of her existing bookings can be re-scheduled to accommodate this.