Lucy Line

Lucy accepts briefs in regulatory and disciplinary work. She has extensive experience acting for various regulatory authorities. This has included acting for legal practitioners and other professionals dealing with disciplinary matters, including work health and safety matters. Further, Lucy has accepted briefs concerning breaches of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and corporate crime.

Lucy also practises in defamation, administrative law and employment law, and has conducted several workplace investigations.  

Owen Dixon Chambers West
525 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne Victoria 3000

Postal Address:
Foley’s List
205 William Street
Melbourne Victoria 3000

Clerk: Foley’s List
foleys.com.au

Admitted to Practice: 12 December 2008
Signed Bar Roll: 23 October 2014
Also Admitted In: Victoria and California, USA

Presentations:

• Tendency and Coincidence Evidence, the Significance of Velkoski v The Queen [2014] VSCA 121 Foley’s List CPD Seminar Series, 2015 (co-presentation with the Honourable Justice Beale of the Supreme Court of Victoria)
• Judicial inquiries Attorney-General’s Department of South Australia, 2014
• Police, Prosecutors and Claims of Public Interest Immunity: Marriage made in Heaven or Irreconcilable Differences? Australian Institute of Administrative Law (SA), 2013, (drafted presentation speech)
• Maximising the Value of Evidence (Legalwise CPD Seminar, 2017)
• A Safe Workplace and Duty of Care (presentation at the Leo Cussen Centre for Law, Melbourne, 2019)
• New Whistleblower Regime – The Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Act 2019 (Cth (presentation at the Leo Cussen Centre for Law, Melbourne, 2020)
• Whistleblowers (Employment law CPD, Apple Podcast, 2020)
• Employees and Social media – what employers need to know (Employment law CPD, Apple podcast, 2021)

Publications:

• Case and Comment: Bellemore v Tasmania (2006) (2008) 32(3) Criminal Law Journal (L Line)
• Has the “Silver Thread” of the Criminal Law Lost its Lustre? The Modern Prosecutor as a Minister of Justice? (2012) 31(2) University of Tasmania Law Review 55 (D Plater, L Line)
• Police, Prosecutors and Claims of Public Interest Immunity: Marriage made in Heaven or Irreconcilable Differences? Presentation at Australian Institute of Administrative Law (SA) seminar, Adelaide, May 2013 (with D Plater)
• The Schleswig-Holstein Question of the Criminal Law Finally Resolved? An Examination of South Australia’s New Approach to the Use of Bad Character Evidence in Criminal Proceeding? (2013) 15 Flinders Law Journal (D Plater, L Line, R Davies)
• Police, Prosecutors and Ex-Parte Public Interest Immunity Claims: The Use of Special Advocates in Australia (2014) UTasLawRw 15 (L Line, D Plater)
• Pre-trial Defence Disclosure in South-Australian Criminal Proceedings: Time for Change? (2016) 37 Adelaide Law Review, 101 (L Line, C Wyld, D Plater)
• The Provoking Operation of Provocation: Stage 1 (South Australian Law Reform Institute, Adelaide, 2017) (D Plater, L Line, K Fitz-Gibbon)
• The Provoking Operation of Provocation: Stage 2 (South Australian Law Reform Institute, Adelaide, 2018) (D Plater, D Bleby, L Line, M Lawson, A Teakle, K O’Connell and K Fitz-Gibbon)