Level 10, 287 Elizabeth Street
SYDNEY

Phone: 9264 9444
Fax: 9264 9449

PO Box: 20543 World Square NSW 2002

DX: 11523 Sydney Downtown

Trust Chambers is conveniently located across the road from Museum Station and the Downing Centre providing almost direct access to the Local Court, District Court and Family Court of Australia.

We are also located close to the Law Courts building at Queens Square and the Supreme Court of NSW and the Federal Court of Australia.

Tomislav Bicanic

Admission Dates
Legal Profession: 2017
NSW Bar: 2018
Also entitled to practise in: All Australian jurisdictions (State, Territory and Commonwealth)

 

Principal areas of Practise

  • Criminal Law
    • Summary and Indictable
    • Bail, Hearing, Trial, Sentence and Appeal
  • Quasi-criminal
    • Commissions of Inquiry
    • Crime Commission (State and Commonwealth)
    • Coronial Inquests
  • Family Law
  • Constitutional law

 

Memberships and panels

  • NSW Bar Association New Barristers Committee
  • Director, Trust Chambers
  • Legal Aid Summary Criminal Law Panel
  • NSW Federal Court Pro Bono Assistance Scheme

 

Recent cases

  • Mansweto v R [2018] NSWCCA 232; 86 MVR 309 (led by A. Bellanto QC.  Sentence appeal allowed – resentenced)
  • Ng v R [2019] NSWCCA 172 (led by I. Lloyd QC.  Conviction appeal allowed – conviction quashed)
  • Daaboul v R [2019] NSWCCA 191; 100 NSWLR 682 (led by A. Bellanto QC.  Conviction appeal allowed – conviction quashed)
  • Scahill v R [2019] NSWCCA 190 (led by A. Bellanto QC.  Conviction appeal allowed – conviction quashed)
  • Casella v R [2019] NSWCCA 201 (led by A. Bellanto QC.  Sentence appeal allowed – resentenced from full time imprisonment to ICO)
  • Petkos v R [2020] NSWCCA 55 (led by I. Lloyd QC.  Sentence appeal – whether DPP v Maxwell (2013) 228 A Crim R 218 should be applied to offences under the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (NSW) – appeal dismissed).  Special leave refused: Petkos v The Queen [2020] HCATrans 212 (8 December 2020)
  • Manojlovic v R; R v Manojlovic [2020] NSWCCA 315 (led by I. Lloyd QC.  Conviction appeal – appeal dismissed – Crown sentence appeal – Crown appeal allowed)
  • Kim v R [2020] NSWCCA [2020] NSWCCA 288 (led by A. Bellanto QC.  Conviction appeal – appeal dismissed)
  • PQR v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) [2020] NSWSC 731 (led by A. Bellanto QC.  Interlocutory appeal on question of law from Children’s Court Magistrate – appeal dismissed)
  • Chen v The Queen [2018] HCATrans 240 (led by M. Thangaraj SC. Special leave refused)
  • GG v The Queen [2019] HCASL 213 (led by A. Bellanto QC. Special leave refused)
Contact

T: (02) 9264 9444
F: (02) 9264 9449
E: tbicanic@trustchambers.com.au
C: clerk@trustchambers.com.au

Tomislav Bicanic