Michelle Jenkins has a broad practice with a focus on public and administrative law.

Michelle appears regularly both for and against government agencies and departments in a range of areas including child protection, supervision orders, disciplinary proceedings, migration, subpoenas, personal injuries, and inquiries.  She has a particular interest in coronial inquests and regulatory prosecutions.

Prior to coming to bar, Michelle was a Principal Solicitor at the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office, where she worked from 2008 to 2016.  Her final year at VGSO was spent exclusively on the State Response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

From 2002 to 2008, Michelle worked in private practice on a large variety of commercial disputes.

Michelle read with Ben Ihle and her senior mentor is Kerri Judd QC.