Emma Poole

• Commercial Law
• Equity
• Insurance & Reinsurance
• Intellectual Property
• Professional Negligence
• Public Law

Emma accepts briefs primarily in commercial matters. Recent cases have included issues relating to contract, superannuation, trusts, professional liability and tort.

Emma also advises in relation to complex procedural matters and has written practice notes for Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law on Victorian Supreme Court practice and procedure.

Emma graduated from Melbourne Law School with prizes in Property, Civil Procedure and Legal Research. She has a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) from the University of Oxford which she attended on an Allan Myers Oxford Scholars Scholarship. She also has a BA Hons in English Language and Literature from Oxford.

Before joining the Bar Emma was at the Supreme Court of Victoria, first as Associate to the Honourable Justice Elliott and then as Executive Officer to the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that she worked in Geneva for the Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, a United Nations agency and as a professional actor in the UK, US and Australia.

Emma is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) Company Directors’ Course and a member of AIPPI Australia (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property). She is also an ambassador for Pembroke College, Oxford.

She is currently Deputy Chair of the Bar’s Innovation and Technology Committee and a member of the Victorian Bar News Committee.

She read with Dr Michael Rush KC and her senior mentor is Colin Golvan AM KC.

Matters include:

• Elvin v Davey [2022] VSC 214 and [2022] VSC 324 – acted for the appellant, led by Christopher Archibald KC.
• CareSuper judicial advice – led by Dominique Hogan-Doran SC (Re CareSuper Pty Ltd (No 2) [2021] VSC 854 and Re CareSuper Pty Ltd [2021] VSC 805).
• CPSU v UniSuper Ltd [2020] VSC 825 – acted for the defendant, led by Tomo Boston KC.
• Marciano v Marciano (settled) – led by Georgina Costello KC.
• Dover Financial Advisers Pty Ltd & anor v Holley Nethercote & ors (settled) – acted for the first defendant, led by Christopher Archibald KC.
• Family Court of Australia and Federal Circuit Court of Australia – Harmonisation of family law rules, led by Dr Chris Jessup KC and Ray Finkelstein KC, with Christopher Lum.

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