Nina Vallins

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Nina is a common law barrister, practicing primarily in institutional liability, and in broader personal injury law. 

Nina has particular experience and interest in Sentencing Act applications for compensation (s85B).

Nina is listed in the 2025 Doyle's Guide for Recommended Insurance and Personal Injury Law Junior Counsel.

As a solicitor, Nina worked for ten years with plaintiffs in historic child abuse cases and Sentencing Act applications for compensation, including at Angela Sdrinis Legal. Since coming to the bar, she has continued acting for child abuse victims in trials, mediations and paperwork. She has appeared at hearings and mediations in 85B claims, and in the Victorian Court of Appeal for the victim in an 85B appeal brought by the offender. 

Nina accepts briefs in guardianship and administration matters, and has appeared for concerned family members and the proposed  represented person at VCAT. She also appears in child protection proceedings for the Department, family members, and/or the child.

Before becoming a lawyer, Nina worked in community development in Australia and in South-East Asia, with a particular focus on projects promoting the rights of women and children. She was the Executive Director of Project Respect, a non-government organisation which works with women in the sex industry.

Nina is a member of the Student Engagement Committee of the Victorian Bar.

Nina read with Katharine Gladman and her senior mentor is Michelle Britbart KC.