Presenters

Mark Robinson SC, Macquarie Street Chambers
Mark Robinson is a Senior Counsel based in Sydney practising in administrative law and general law. He was a founding part-time Judicial Member of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales in the General Division - hearing matters on privacy and freedom of information. He served on that tribunal and its Appeal Panel for seven years. For sixteen years, Mark was an occasional part-time lecturer in undergraduate ‘Administrative Law’ in the Law Faculties of the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. For twenty six years, Mark acted as the lead author and editor of New South Wales Administrative Law, a two volume looseleaf service, published by Thomson Reuters (since 1996) which covers Supreme Court judicial review, the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT), statutory interpretation, freedom of information and privacy. Mark has authored and edited three legal texts (each published by Thomson Reuters): Judicial Review: The Laws of Australia published in 2014, with an encyclopaedic coverage of judicial review Australia wide; NCAT - Practice and Procedure, 2nd ed, published in 2020; and Administrative Law: The Laws of Australia, published in 2017. It concerns State and Federal tribunals and it also covers the Ombudsmen and freedom of information around Australia.

Dr Juliet Lucy, Barrister, Maurice Byers Chambers and Senior Member, NCAT
Juliet Lucy is a barrister at Maurice Byers Chambers in Sydney. She has a general practice with a strong focus on public law. Juliet appears regularly in the Supreme Court and Federal Court in judicial review proceedings, high risk offender matters and family provision disputes. In addition to her work at the bar, Juliet is a Senior Member of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal, assigned to the Appeal Panel and the Administrative and Equal Opportunity, Occupational and Consumer and Commercial Divisions of the Tribunal. Prior to coming to the bar, Juliet was a senior solicitor at the NSW Crown Solicitor’s Office. Juliet has also worked as a legal academic at Western Sydney University and Macquarie University. She regularly gives papers on topics including procedural fairness and the grounds of judicial review and published, with Mark Robinson SC, NCAT - Practice and Procedure, 2nd edition, 2020.