Shane Gardner
E: shanegardner@vicbar.com.au
P: +61 3 9225 6986
M:
Chamber: Room 4510, Madison Chambers, 639 Lonsdale Street, MELBOURNE, VIC 3000, AUSTRALIA
Admitted: 03/03/1997
Called to Bar: 22/05/1997
Date Appointed Silk:
Qualifications:
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About

Shane has been at the Victorian Bar coalface for almost 3 decades, practising in all forms of criminal law cases, intervention orders, Coroner’s inquests, confiscation proceedings, IBAC proceedings, compulsory examinations and occupational health and safety matters. 

He has appeared in excess of 5,000 cases including matters in the;

  • Court of Appeal,
  • Supreme Court trials (multiple murder and manslaughter trials), pleas, bail applications and confiscation hearings.
  • County Court trials, pleas, bail applications and appeals, s 85B applications, confiscation hearings
  • Magistrate’s court contests, directions hearings, mentions, pleas, bail applications, committal hearings,85B applications, confiscation hearings.  With a specialised practice 
  • Coronial inquests.
  • He also occasionally appears in the NSW courts in their criminal jurisdiction.

Shane also has a specialised practice in intervention orders, both of the Family Violence and Personal Safety species.

Shane has had the sole carriage of the defence in a number of high profile homicide trials and inquests including those colloquially known as;

“The baby in the car case”

“The daughter in-law in the bag and the bin case”   

“The Business partner in the pool inquest”  and

” The merciful suicide of the father case”    

Accreditation

Shane is a member of the VLA Preferred Barrister List and holds a current Indictable Crime Certificate (ICC).

PracticeAreas

Practice Areas

Appellate
Criminal Appeals,
Criminal
Criminal Appellate,Domestic and Family Violence,Drugs,Environmental and Planning Offences,Extradition,Fraud,Juvenile Justice,Mental Illness,Proceeds of Crime or Money Laundering,Property Offences and Theft or Robbery or Burglary,Sexual Assault,Traffic,White Collar and Corporate Crime,Work Health and Safety,
Industrial Employment
Work Health and Safety,
Inquests Inquiries
,
Public Administrative
Proceeds of Crime,

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