Patmalar Ambikapathy

203 Equity Chambers
(No mail to be sent to this address)
472 Bourke Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000

Clerk Peter Roberts
Owen Dixon Chambers West
525 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000

DX 97, MELBOURNE (Address mail to her clerk)

Telephone: 03 9225 7000
Facsimile: 03 9225 8951

Email: patmalar@vicbar.com.au

Admitted to Practice: 1 Oct 1979 (Vic), May 2000 (Tas)

Signed Bar Roll: 19 April 2004 (Tas), 12 May 2005 (Vic)

Also admitted in: England & Wales, Malaysia, NSW, ACT

Biography:

Degrees

BA (Dunelm) Politics, Economics, Law
Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn London)
M.Phil (Cambridge) Criminology

Awards

International Peace Scholarship: America
Booker Award: Cambridge
National Children’s Lawyer of the Year 1999
Runner Up Inaugural Pro Bono Award: Victoria

Practice 

Malaysia: After qualifying in England, with father:  Company, Commercial, Property Law, pro bono in other areas.
England: Merchant Banking, Tax and Estate law
Victoria: Commercial, Property Family Law, Family Crime Children’s Law,

Chosen for investigative team War Crimes Tribunal: East Timor
Amicus Curiae Melbourne Children’s Court June 2000
First Commissioner for Children Tasmania Oct 2000 - April 2004.

Areas of Practice:

Children’s rights in all jurisdictions.