Dymphna Hawkins

areas of practice

• Appellate

• Crime

• Common Law

• Equity

• Family

• Professional/apprehended bias 

• Property

• Probate

• Injunctions/ Stays

Professional Organisations

• Australian Bar Association 

• International Bar Association  various committees

• Industrial Relations Society NSW 

• Women Lawyers NSW

Overview

Ms Hawkins was called to the New South Wales Bar in February 2003 with a diverse practice in crime, civil, commercial, employment, probate and family matters, complex applications and appeals, urgent injunctions, civil fraud, judicial apprehended bias, and suppression orders for lawyers.

She was admitted to the NSW Supreme Court as a legal practitioner in 1997, and worked at the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW for five years as a solicitor advocate. Prior to that she was an industrial law advocate and university tutor/associate lecturer in industrial law and employment relations at UWS Westmead.

Since being called to the NSW Bar, Ms Hawkins has appeared in NSW hearings, appeals, jury trials,NSW ICAC, NSW Crime Commission, Qld Crime Corruption Commission , Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Qld Magistrates, District, Supreme & Qld Court of Appeal, WA District, Melbourne Magistrates & County, High Court appeals from NSW & Sth Australia, Federal Circuit, Family and Federal Courts.

Current interests in law are international commercial arbitration, and its relationship with transnational crime and their geopolitical aspects.

Pro bono work includes workplace disputes, Bondi Pavillion homeless re the state as a fiduciary, an implied licence and a breach of constitutional rights in the NSW Supreme Ct, and the High Court, international terrorism and client legal privilege.