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Randy Palihakkara

  • Bar : 2026
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  • Admitted : 2019

Randy practises primarily in commercial and common law.

Phone : +61 3 9225 7222

Mobile : 0430 783 704

Email : rpalihakkara@vicbar.com.au

Chambers : Peta Murphy Chambers, Level 9, 456 Lonsdale Street Melbourne, VIC 3000

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Expertise

Alternative Dispute Resolution

International Commercial Arbitration

Appellate

Civil Appeals

Commercial

Carriage of Goods

Commercial Class Actions

Competition and Consumer Law

Contractual Disputes

Insurance

Insurance - Public Liability

Insurance and Professional Negligence

Professional Liability

Transport Law: Admiralty or Aviation or Maritime

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

Corporations Law

ASIC investigations and Prosecutions

Directors and Officers Claims

Shareholder Disputes

Criminal

Crimes Against the Person

Extradition

Fraud

Proceeds of Crime or Money Laundering

Victims of Crime

White Collar and Corporate Crime

Work Health and Safety

Energy and Resources

Energy and Infrastructure

Equity

Fiduciary Duties

Industrial Employment

Employment Contracts and Restraint of Trade

Inquests Inquiries

Commissions or Tribunals and Other Inquiries

Coronial Inquests

International

International Commercial Arbitration

Private International Law

Public Administrative

Extradition – Public Administrator

Proceeds of Crime

Sports Law

Contracts and Contract Disputes

The Court of Arbitration for Sport

Profile

Randy practises primarily in commercial and common law. She also accepts briefs in regulatory law, class actions, and quasi-criminal matters. 


Before coming to the Bar, she was a senior associate at Holding Redlich and previously, Associate to the Honourable Justice Attiwill at the Supreme Court of Victoria. At Holding Redlich, Randy had a broad commercial disputes practice and acted for clients in complex contractual disputes in the commodities, banking and finance and professional services sectors. She also had a significant public inquiries practice, having represented clients involved in the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide, Liverpool City Council Public Inquiry and, the Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU and Misconduct in the Construction Industry. 


Randy has a particular interest in insurance law and major torts. She started her career at Wotton + Kearney and advised on both personal injury and policy coverage matters. 


Randy is reading with Kelly McKay, and her senior mentor is Kate Burke SC.

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Randy Palihakkara - Barrister