Jeremy Rapke QC
Areas of Practice:
- Human Rights Law
- Administrative Law
- Public Law
- Criminal Law
- Industrial Relations
- Discrimination
- Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S)
- Judicial Review
- Merits Review
- Disciplinary Proceedings
- Discrimination & Equal Opportunity
- Royal Commissions
- Coronial Inquests
- Corporate / White Collar Crime
- Proceeds of Crime
- Crimes Against the Person
- Appellate
- Inquests
- Inquiries
- Tribunals & Commissions
- Fraud
- Health
- Drugs
General Profile
After signing the Bar Roll in 1974, Jeremy conducted a general practice with an emphasis on common law, criminal law (including prosecuting and defending at both the trial and appellate levels in many significant criminal matters), administrative law and commercial law.
He was retained as counsel assisting two Royal Commissions of Inquiry (Royal Commission into Australia’s Meat Industry and Royal Commission into Australia’s Security and Intelligence Agencies), the National Crime Authority and the Medical Board of Victoria.
In 1995, Jeremy was appointed a Senior Crown Prosecutor for Victoria. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999 and then the Chief Crown Prosecutor for Victoria in 2005. In 2007, he was appointed Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions, a position he held until 2011.
