Natalie has a busy advocacy practice in a range of contested and complex indictable crime, summary crime, family and Children’s Court Family Division matters.
Natalie Sheridan-Smith
barrister
Admitted
2002
Bar
2008
Phone
Mobile
Chambers
Owen Dixon Chambers West
ABOUT
More details about Natalie
Admission
5 April 2002
Signed Bar Roll
20 November 2008
Admitted to Practice
Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, Northern Territory, Australia Capital Territory, South Australia, Western Australia, HCA Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Federal Court of Australia
Chambers
Owen Dixon Chambers West
525 Lonsdale St
Melbourne VIC 3000
525 Lonsdale St
Melbourne VIC 3000
Notable Cases
- 2015 – Successfully prosecuted the first drug importer approached via “spam” email: Afford v The Queen which was upheld on appeal to the High Court in Smith v The Queen; The Queen v Afford[2017] HCA 19 (10 May 2017)
- 2011 to 2015 – Successfully prosecuted numerous individuals involved in two large scale drug importation / trafficking syndicates: Operation Rattlesnake and Operation Ripsaw.
- 2010 – Successfully conducted a pre-trial voir dire concerning unreliable admissions made by an accused in relation to a serious armed robbery resulting in the Prosecution withdrawing all charges.
- 2009 – Appeared before the Municipal Electoral Tribunal to successfully establish impropriety on the part of a local council and candidate in the local council election in 2008 which ultimately resulted in legislative changes to introduce penalties for such impropriety.
- 2008 – Royal Commission into Black Saturday Bushfires – assisted key witnesses to draft statements and appear before the Royal Commission
- 2007 – Appeared for a Japanese student, Takuya Muto, in one of the first and widely reported ‘up- skirting’ incidents at a Melbourne back-packers hostel and the Australian Open.
- 2005 – Represented the fourth traditional law wife of Galurrway Yunupingu in contested intervention order proceedings in Nhulunbuy (Gove) in the Northern
Territory - 2003 – Prosecuted an American tourist for breaching the confines of the Yongala Wreck off Townsville (QLD) contrary to the Historic Shipwrecks Act which was of particular interest to the international SCUBA diving industry
Availability
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