Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Procedural Fairness: Recent Cases and their Implications
What does procedural fairness look like? This session provides a concise update on recent case law shaping the boundaries of natural justice and the legal duties of decision-makers. Learn how the courts are applying these principles in practice, what’s changed, and how to ensure your processes stand up to scrutiny. Perfect for anyone working in or advising government agencies or tribunals.
Presented by Sophie Molyneux, Barrister, Koiki Mabo Chambers
Chair
Mick Batskos, Executive Director, FOI Solutions; Leading Administrative & Public Lawyer, Victoria, Doyles Guide 2025
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Presenters
Mick Batskos, Executive Director, FOI SolutionsMick has over 37 years experience acting for government departments and agencies at all levels. That includes Commonwealth agencies, State government departments, statutory authorities and local councils. Mick has appeared or instructed in hundreds of proceedings in areas including freedom of information, privacy, appeals, and judicial review. Mick is the Executive Director of FOI Solutions, an accredited specialist firm in administrative law. He received a Law Institute of Victoria Certificate of Service in 2005 for demonstrated professional excellence and making a special contribution to the legal profession in the area of administrative law. He was named in the Doyles guide as a leading administrative lawyer in Victoria or Australia in 2021,2023 and 2024.
Sophie Molyneux, Barrister, Koiki Mabo Chambers
Sophie is a barrister at the Victorian Bar with a broad practice in public, commercial and quasi-criminal matters. She has worked as counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide and, before coming to the Bar, worked at the Independent Broad-Based Anti-corruption Commission and at Gilbert + Tobin Lawyers. Sophie did a Juris Doctor at the University of Melbourne and a Master of Laws at Columbia University in New York. In 2024, Sophie was listed as a leading junior counsel in administrative and public law in Doyle’s Guide.
