Greg Hughan

Greg is a very experienced criminal advocate who has appeared extensively in trials, appeals against conviction and sentence to the Court of Appeal, pleas, committal hearings and summary hearings in the Magistrates’ Court.  He holds an Indictable Crime Certificate and is on Victoria Legal Aid’s Criminal Trial Preferred Barristers’ List. Greg also regularly advises on the merits of appeals against conviction and sentence.

Greg frequently appears in the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal and the federal courts in migration and citizenship matters and provides advice on the prospects of merits review and judicial review.  He is particularly experienced and interested in cases at the intersection of criminal law and migration law, including character-based visa cancellations and refusals. He has also appeared in inquests, business licensing matters, disciplinary proceedings and similar matters.

In 2021 Greg was appointed as a sessional lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Monash University, subsequently teaching criminal law and evidence. Between 2016 & 2019 he taught criminal law, evidence and advocacy at the Australian Catholic University, Thomas More Academy of Law. Before coming to the bar in 1999, Greg worked at the Transport Accident Commission (1987 to 1989) and in the Criminal Law Division of Victoria Legal Aid, from 1989 to 1999.