Bar Roll – 29 April 2004
Admitted – 10 February 2003
Phone – 03 9225 7333
Email – philipskehan@vicbar.com.au
PHILIP SKEHAN
PHILIP SKEHAN
Bar Roll – 29 April 2004
Admitted – 10 February 2003
Office – 03 9225 7333
Email – philipskehan@vicbar.com.au
Area of Law
- Coronial Inquests
- Crimes/Family Violence/Interv. Orders
- Criminal Law
- Evidence
- Health Act and Related Prosecutions
- Inquests
- Liquor Law
- Magistrates Court – Crime
- Occupational Health and Safety
About
Phil specialises in criminal law and intervention orders.
He is available for trials in Victoria and Interstate (including criminal matters funded by Legal Aid).
His experience includes:
- appearing at trial in the Supreme and County Courts;
- appearing at contested hearings in the Magistrates’ Court; and
- advising, acting and appearing for litigants in intervention orders.
He has appeared in trials for:
- Murder and Attempted Murder,
- Drugs,
- Violence,
- Sexual assault, and
- Fraud.
He has successfully argued issues involving:
- no case to answer;
- discontinuance of prosecution;
- separation of trials;
- irrelevant evidence;
- unfairly prejudicial evidence; and
- unreliable evidence.
He has successfully litigated these areas of law in the Magistrates’ Court:
- Family Violence Intervention Orders;
- Personal Safety Intervention Orders;
- Drink and Drug Driving;
- Building and planning;
- OH & S.
He has volunteered at these community legal services:
- Salvation Army Bourke Street,
- Springvale, and
- Fitzroy Legal Service.
He regularly volunteers his services as a moot court magistrate for the Victorian Bar Readers Course and the Victoria Police Prosecutors Course.
Phil has also conducted many pro bono CPD lectures for law firms. If you would like him to present a CPD paper please call him on 0412 161 702.
Phil holds Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (July 2021) and is available for training roles.
He read with Mr Peter ‘David’ Drake.