Tracey Stevens

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Areas of Practice

  • Coronial inquests and inquiries;
  • Criminal law;
  • Health law; and
  • Children’s law.
Tracey Stevens

Professional History

Tracey was called to the bar in 2012. Before this she worked as a solicitor advocate for the Crown Solicitor’s Office NSW, Legal Aid NSW in Western Sydney and the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission in Alice Springs. She has lectured in law at Sydney University and at the University of NSW and worked as a law reform solicitor in the community legal sector.

Tracey practises in Queensland, New South Wales and the Northern Territory. She is also a member of Maurice Byers Chambers in Sydney.

Expertise

Tracey has extensive experience as an advocate across jurisdictions. Her primary practice is in coronial inquests, inquiries and criminal trials (both prosecution and defence). She regularly provides advice and representation in professional disciplinary prosecutions and in medical negligence cases. Tracey also has a long-standing practice in children’s law (in the parens patriae jurisdiction in the Supreme Court, adoptions, complex care hearings and appeals and as an independent legal representative for the child in care and family proceedings).

Qualifications, Appointments and Admissions

  • 2012 Admission as a barrister to NSW Bar
  • 2005 Admission as a legal practitioner to Supreme Court of Northern Territory
  • 2003 Admission as a solicitor to Supreme Court of New South Wales
  • 2001 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) / Bachelor of Arts (Australian National University)

Tracey has been a member of NSW Bar Association committees, a tutor to readers or pupils at the junior bar and served as a director for many years on the Maurice Byers Chambers Board of Directors.  She has also served on the ACOSS (Australian Council of Social Service) Board of Directors (from 2016 – 2018); the Amnesty International Australia Human Rights Innovation Fund Committee (2016 – 2019); the Central Australia Youth Justice Network (2007 – 2008); and the Central Australia Women’s Legal Services Management Board (2006 – 2008). She is a member of the Benevolent Society Social Leadership Australia Alumni.

Notable Cases

Tracey has appeared in many significant and complex inquests and inquiries in NSW, largely as counsel assisting, both led by senior counsel and unled. These include the Inquest into the disappearance of William Tyrrell (2025); the Inquest into the disappearance of Marion Barter (2024); the Inquiries into the Black Summer Bushfires (2021 – 2024) (in which evidence was led in relation to 44 fires and 26 deaths); and the Inquest into the death of David Dungay  (2019).