Paula Morreau KC

Contact

Areas of Practice

Criminal Law
Appellate
Administrative Law
Professional Misconduct
Inquests
Commissions of Inquiry
Statutory Tribunals
Human Rights
Discrimination Law
Defamation Law

Education & Admissions

1999 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) / Bachelor of Arts (QUT)
2002 Admitted as a solicitor, Supreme Court of Queensland
2002 Admitted on role of practitioners, High Court of Australia
2007 Master of Laws (Harvard Law School)
2009 Admitted as a barrister, Supreme Court of Queensland
2024 Appointed as King’s Counsel

Professional History

2009 – Present

Barrister-at-law

Recent Appellate Work

Other Notable Cases

Peros v Nationwide News Pty Ltd, Thomas and Blackburn (No. 3) [2024] QSC 192 (with D Sibtain SC)
R v White, sentence for manslaughter, unreported, Davis J, 6 September 2024
Johnston v Commissioner of Police [2024] QSC 2
Owen-D’Arcy v Chief Executive, Queensland Corrective Services [2021] QSC 273
Attorney-General v Grant (No 2) [2022] QSC 252
Woodforth v State of Queensland [2018] 1 Qd R 289 (with K Eastman SC)
For several witnesses in the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory (2017)
CDPP v Amber Heard (2016) (with J Kirk SC)

2011 – 2019

Sessional Academic

QUT (2011-2015), Bond University (2015-2018), UNE (2019)
Law and First Peoples; Administrative Law; Constitutional Law; Comparative Constitutional Law; Clinical Legal Studies’
Awarded: Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2013)

2002 – 2009

Solicitor, Boe Lawyers

Publications

“Has the Human Rights Act 2019 made a difference?” Proctor, Spotlight on Human Rights edition, 8 December 2020. https://www.qlsproctor.com.au/2020/12/has-the-human-rights-act-2019-made-a-difference/

“Policing Public Nuisance: the legacy of recent events on Palm Island” (2007) Indigenous LawBulletin, 6(28), 9. http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/IndigLawB/2007/34.html?context=1;query=morreau;mask_path=