Simon Bobko
Simon Bobko
LLB (Hons)/BIntRel (La Trobe), BSc, DipML(Russ) (Melb)
Areas of Practice:
- Banking & Finance
- Building Law & Construction Law
- Commercial Law
- Common Law
- Competition Law & Consumer Law
- Corporations Law & Securities Law
- Electricity
- Energy Law & Resources Law
- Gas
- Government
- Immigration
- Information Technical (IT) & Computing
- Insurance Law
- Insurance Law & Professional Negligence Law
- Judicial Review
- Local Government Offences
- Merits Review
- Migration Law
- Public Law & Administrative Law
- Technology Law & Media Law
- Telecommunications
General Profile
Simon accepts briefs in a broad range of matters with a focus on commercial, regulatory and public law.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Simon was associate to her Honour Judge Burchell and earlier to his Honour Judge Woodward and the Commercial Division Judicial Registrars at the County Court of Victoria. He has significant experience in the practical and procedural aspects of conducting commercial matters at the interlocutory, ADR and trial stages of litigation. Simon also provided the division with business development assistance and was a co-author of the Commercial Division Incantations (bench book).
Formerly, Simon worked as a management consultant at one of Australia’s largest energy companies in both their Future Business & Technology and Regulatory & Compliance teams. He also worked as a solicitor in a generalist firm, practicing in commercial, family, migration and criminal law.
Simon holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and a Bachelor of International Relations from La Trobe University and a Bachelor of Science and a Diploma in Modern Languages (Russian) from the University of Melbourne.
Simon is reading with Chris Twidale and his senior mentor is Claire Harris QC.