Ms Kate Slack
Barrister, Higgins Chambers

Kate 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. 

Kate appeared for the plaintiffs in the two most recent High Court cases on the operation and application of the power in s 51(xix) of the Constitution: the ground-breaking case of Love v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 3; (2020) 270 CLR 152 (where she was led by Stephen Keim SC) and, Chetcuti v Commonwealth of Australia [2021] HCA 25; 95 ALJR 1 (where she was led by Georgina Schoff KC and Georgina Costello KC). Kate is frequently briefed in complex judicial review proceedings (see, for example, Norouzi v The Director of the Professional Services Review Agency [2020] FCA 1524; Byron Aged Care Limited v Aged Care Quality and Safety Commissioner [2022] FFCA 1060 (unled against Silk)).