Julia – Ann Hickleton

Admission Dates
Legal Profession: 2001
NSW Bar: 2001

Also entitled to practise in: All Australian jurisdictions (State, Territory and Commonwealth)

Principal Areas of Practice
• Criminal Defence Law
• Trial Advocacy
• Sentencing
• Bail
• Coronial Inquests
• Appeals

Professional Background
Prior to being called to the Bar in 2001, Miss Hickleton worked as legal counsel and as a senior commercial manager in the banking, finance and manufacturing sectors.

Jurisdictions
• High Court of Australia (special leave applications as Junior Counsel)
• NSW Court of Criminal Appeal (conviction and sentence appeals)
• Supreme Court of NSW (trials, sentencing, bail applications and interlocutory applications)
• Land and Environment Court of NSW (Class 5 – criminal proceedings)
• District Court of NSW (trials, sentencing and appeals from the Local Court)
• New South Wales Crime Commission (examinations)
• County Court of Victoria (trials and sentencing)
• New South Wales State Coroner’s Court (coronial inquests)
• Local Court of NSW (hearings and committals)

Legal Aid Panels
• Indictable matters
• Complex Criminal matters