Speakers

The conference will include a noteworthy panel of speakers with exceptional knowledge and experience.  



The Honourable Chief Justice Mortimer
Chief Justice, Federal Court of Australia 

In April 2023, Debbie Mortimer was appointed as the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. Chief Justice Mortimer is the fifth Chief Justice and the first female Chief Justice of the Federal Court.  Read full bio here.

The Honourable Justice
Emilios Kyrou AO
President, Administrative Appeals Tribunal 

The Hon Justice Emilios Kyrou AO was a Judge of Appeal of the Victorian Court of Appeal from July 2014 until he was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Read full bio here. 

The Honourable Justice Button
Federal Court of Australia 

Justice Button was appointed to the Federal Court on 16 January 2023, having been a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria since 2021. Read full bio here. 






The Honourable Paul Le Gay Brereton SC
Commissioner, National Anti-Corruption Commission 

Paul Brereton was educated at Knox Grammar School and the University of Sydney, admitted as a solicitor in New South Wales in 1982, called to the Bar in 1987 and appointed Senior Counsel in 1998. At the Bar, he had a diverse general practice. Read full bio here. 

Ms Kate Morgan SC

Tenth Floor Chambers

Kate Morgan has a broad national practice and appears throughout numerous jurisdictions (civil and criminal) with a focus on regulatory matters including cartels, corporations, consumer protection, money laundering and foreign bribery. Read full bio here. 

The Honourable Justice John Dixon
Former Judge, Supreme Court of Victoria 

Justice Dixon was appointed to the Supreme Court in September 2010 serving as a judge in the Trial Division for 13 years. His Honour was the judge in charge of the Major Torts list in the Common Law Division which included defamation and media law cases and presided over several class actions from Black Saturday. Read full bio here. 

Mr Neil Young KC
Victorian Bar 

Neil has an extensive commercial law practice, with substantial experience in corporations law, banking and finance, competition, taxation, mining and energy law and intellectual property. Read full bio here. 

Mr Emrys Nekvapil SC
Victorian Bar 

Emrys practices in all jurisdictions, at trial and appellate level, and throughout Australia. He is a member of Koiki Mabo Chambers in Melbourne, 8 Petrie Terrace in Brisbane, and William Forster Chambers in Darwin. Read full bio here. 

Ms Marita Hogan

Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)

Marita Hogan is ASIC’s national portfolio lead for enforcement and compliance for the Superannuation, Life Insurance, Investment Management and Financial Advice sectors. Read full bio here. 




Professor Julian Webb
Melbourne Law School, Melbourne University 

Julian Webb joined Melbourne Law School in 2014 from the University of Warwick in the UK. He holds a concurrent appointment as an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, and has previously held visiting appointments at University College, London, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in the USA. Read full bio here. 

Ms Jennie Pakula

Lawyer Regulation Expert | Innovation Enabler

Jennie worked in legal services regulation from 1994-2023.  She has been an ethics adviser and complaint handler with the Law Society of NSW, and in Victoria, she has conducted investigations and prosecutions. Read full bio here. 


Mr Perry Herzfeld SC
Eleven Wentworth Chambers

Perry has a wide ranging commercial and public law practice. He has appeared in the High Court, and in intermediate appellate courts and at the trial level in various jurisdictions. Read full bio here. 




Mr Peter Woulfe
Blackburn Chambers

Peter Woulfe is a barrister with a civil practice in a range of practice areas, with a particular focus on government and administrative law.   Read full bio here. 

Mr Greg McIntyre SC
Law Council of Australia

Greg McIntyre commenced practice with the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia in 1976 in Kalgoorlie, having completed his Articles of Clerkship with the Crown Solicitor of Western Australia. Read full bio here. 

Ms Georgina Costello KC
Victorian Bar 

Georgina Costello KC is a barrister working in the areas of public law, property law, contract cases and tort litigation. She is Treasurer of the LCA’s Federal Dispute Resolution Section and Chair of the Migration Bar Association of the Victorian Bar. Read full bio here. 

Ms Kate Slack
Higgins Chambers

Kate Slack regularly appears, both led and unled, in federal and state jurisdictions at trial and appellate level. She practises nationally in the Federal Court of Australia and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and travels regularly for appearances. Read full bio here. 

Ms Bronwyn Lincoln
Thomson Geer

Bronwyn Lincoln is a Partner in the Disputes team with extensive experience in commercial litigation and international arbitration. She also regularly advises on conflicts of laws, international treaty rights and obligations (including the CISG) and on the enforcement of foreign judgments and foreign arbitral awards in the Australian courts. Read full bio here. 

Mr Ben Slade
Barrister, William Forster Chambers (NT)

After almost 10 years at Sydney’s Redfern Legal Centre working on human rights and consumer law, Ben was appointed the Manager, General Law, Legal Aid Commission of NSW where he oversaw a practice of over 100 lawyers and others working on civil law matters. Read full bio here. 


Ms Pip Mitchell
Clayton Utz

Whether acting in disputes involving public law or general commercial disputes, Pip Mitchell combines a focus on the technical legal issues with a strategic appreciation of the reputational and commercial issues at stake. Read full bio here.

Ms Valerie Pereira

Da Gama Pereira and Associates Pty. Ltd

Valerie Pereira is the immediate past Chair of the LCA’s Migration Committee. Since joining the LCA Migration Committee, Valerie have been an active participant and been instrumental in organising the Migration Law Conferences in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, 2021 and 2022. Read full bio here. 

Mr Jeremy Ruskin
Victorian Bar

Jeremy Ruskin KC is a member of the Victorian Bar.  After admission to practice, he worked for six years at the Melbourne firm of Galbally & O'Bryan whose principal was Frank Galbally, then one of the pre-eminent criminal advocates in Australia. Read full bio here.