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