Joh Ollquist

Barrister

Bar Roll: 24 October 2019
Admitted: 26 May 2015

Joh is a versatile barrister practising in family, criminal, administrative, and commercial law, with experience in intervention orders, sentencing, children’s and sports law matters.

About Joh

Joh has a broad practice representing and advising clients across a number of practice areas. Joh accepts briefs in family, criminal, administrative and general commercial law.

Family

Joh accepts briefs to appear and advise in parenting and property matters.

Crime

Joh regularly appears in metropolitan and regional courts for clients needing advice and representation in all areas of criminal, quasi criminal and children's law. She is particularly interested in sentencing law and also the intersection between regulatory bodies and criminal law.

Joh also regularly appears in Intervention Order applications pursuant to the Family Violence Protection Act and the Personal Safety Intervention Orders Act. She represents applicants, respondents and clients charged with contraventions of intervention orders.

Administrative

Joh accepts briefs in administrative law and appeared (led) in National Disability Insurance Agency v Davis [2022] FCA 1002.

General Commercial

Joh accepts briefs to advise and appear in general commercial law.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Joh was a criminal lawyer at the Court of Appeal, and an associate to a judge of the County Court. She has previously worked for the International Organization for Migration in Phnom Penh and worked on HIV and human trafficking, and protection of human rights projects in Cambodia.

Joh has a particular interest in sports law, and sits on the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) tribunal. Prior to the law Joh owned a successful 'Good Food Guide' restaurant and was a ski instructor. She also speaks Japanese.

Joh read with Ben Ihle QC and her senior mentor was Colin Golvan AM QC. Her second mentor was Megan Tittensor SC.

Areas of Practice
AppellateBuilding and ConstructionCare and ProtectionCivil and Human RightsCommercialCommissions or Tribunals and Other InquiriesCoronial InquestsCrimes Against the PersonCriminalCriminal AppealsCriminal AppellateDisciplinary ProceedingsDomestic and Family ViolenceDrugsEnvironment and PlanningEnvironmental and Planning OffencesFamily Law and GuardianshipFamily Law and Guardianship AppellateFraudGovernmentGuardianship and AdministrationInquests InquiriesJuvenile JusticeMental IllnessNational Disability Insurance SchemeParenting OrdersPowers of AttorneyProceeds of Crime or Money LaunderingPropertyProperty Offences and Theft or Robbery or BurglaryReal PropertySexual AssaultSports LawTrafficTrustsVictims of CrimeWhite Collar and Corporate CrimeWills and ProbateWork Health and Safety
Jurisdiction
Victoria
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