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Zoe Hough

  • Bar : 2025
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  • Admitted : 2019

Zoe practices primarily in criminal law, accepting briefs to appear and advise in criminal, quasi-criminal and regulatory matters as well as inquests and inquiries.

Phone : +61 3 9225 7222

Mobile : 0400 059 684

Email : zoe.hough@vicbar.com.au

Chambers : Castan Chambers, Room 1601, 460 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

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Expertise

Appellate

Criminal Appeals

Common Law and Personal Injury

Common Law Appellate

Common Law Class Actions

Dust Diseases

Insurance - Disability Claims

Intentional Torts

Judicial Review - Motor Accidents

Judicial Review: Workers Compensation

Medical Negligence

Motor Vehicles Negligence

National Disability Insurance Scheme

Professional Negligence

Work Injuries

Workers Compensation

Criminal

Crimes Against the Person

Crimes Against the Person

Criminal Appellate

Criminal Appellate

Domestic and Family Violence

Domestic and Family Violence

Drugs

Drugs

Environmental and Planning Offences

Environmental and Planning Offences

Extradition

Extradition

Extradition

Fraud

Fraud

Juvenile Justice

Juvenile Justice

Mental Illness

Mental Illness

Proceeds of Crime or Money Laundering

Proceeds of Crime or Money Laundering

Property Offences and Theft or Robbery or Burglary

Property Offences and Theft or Robbery or Burglary

Sexual Assault

Sexual Assault

Traffic

Traffic

Victims of Crime

Victims of Crime

White Collar and Corporate Crime

White Collar and Corporate Crime

Work Health and Safety

Work Health and Safety

Family Law and Guardianship

Care and Protection

Family Law and Guardianship Appellate

Parenting Orders

Property

Government

Food Industry Regulation

Gaming Industry Regulation

Industry Regulations

Inquests Inquiries

Commissions or Tribunals and Other Inquiries

Commissions or Tribunals and Other Inquiries

Coronial Inquests

Coronial Inquests

Public Administrative

Civil and Human Rights

Civil and Human Rights

Compliance and Investigations

Compliance and Investigations

Constitutional Law

Corruption

Corruption

Customs

Disciplinary Proceedings

Disciplinary Proceedings

Discrimination

Discrimination

Health and Medical

Immigration Law

Judicial Review and Administrative Law

Judicial Review and Administrative Law

Liquor Licensing

Merits Review

Merits Review

Merits Review

Migration Law

Privacy or Freedom of Information

Proceeds of Crime

Proceeds of Crime

Public Administrative Appellate

Social Security and Veteran Entitlements

Sports Law

Contracts and Contract Disputes

Disciplinary Tribunals

Disciplinary Tribunals

Doping or Drugs in Sports

Doping or Drugs in Sports

Racing Appeals

The Court of Arbitration for Sport

Tax Revenue

Tax Prosecutions

Profile

Zoe Hough practices primarily in criminal law, accepting briefs to appear and advise in criminal, quasi-criminal and regulatory matters as well as inquests and inquiries.


She also accepts briefs in a broad range of public, family and common law matters.


Before coming to the Bar, Zoe was a Senior Federal Prosecutor at the Commonwealth DPP where she gained extensive experience in a range of crime types, including human trafficking, drug matters, online child exploitation, white collar crime and regulatory offences.


Zoe has appeared in bail hearings, summary contests, committals, and summary and indictable plea hearings across Victoria, NSW and ACT.


Zoe holds a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne.


She is reading with Morgan Brown and her senior mentor is Georgina Coghlan KC.

 

Previous cases:

·      CDPP v Glavas [2025] VCC 983

·      CDPP v Smith [2024] VCC 1140

·      DPP v Lyons [2023] VCC 11

·      CDPP v Shi [2022] VCC 98

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