Paula Morreau
Contact
- pmorreau@8pt.com.au
- 07 3367 2537
- 0422 641 121
- 07 3369 7098
Areas of Practice
- Criminal Law
- Appellate
- Administrative Law
- Professional Misconduct
- Inquests
- Commissions of Inquiry
- Statutory Tribunals
- Human Rights
- Discrimination Law
- Native Title
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
Professional History
2009 – Present
Barrister-at-law
Recent Appellate Work
R v Stable (a pseudonym) [2020] QCA 270
Davis v Ryan, State Coroner [2019] QCA 282
De Silva v The Queen [2019] HCA 48 (with PJ Callaghan SC)
R v FAR [2019] HCATrans 129 (with PJ Callaghan SC)
R v O’Dempsey [2018] QCA 364 and The Queen v O’Dempsey [2019] HCATrans 128 (with J Greggery QC)
R v Chmieluk, ex parte Attorney-General [2018] QCA 271 (with A Boe)
R v Orchard [2018] QCA 058
Woodforth v State of Queensland [2017] QCA 100 (with K Eastman SC)
Other Notable Recent Appearances
Owen-D’Arcy v Chief Executive, Queensland Corrective Services [2021] QSC 273
Attorney-General v Grant (No. 2) [2022] QSC 252
Counsel for the Human Rights Commission Qld (intervening, addressing questions arising under the Human Rights Act 2019) in Australian Institute for Progress v Electoral Commission of Queensland [2020] QSC 054 and Attorney-General v Sri & Ors [2020] QSC 246
R v Kuskey (2019) (murder pre-trial, nolle prosequi, with A Boe)
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=