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Olaf Ciolek

Bar Roll: 2015 Admitted: 2010
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61 414 954 024
Room 2207 Owen Dixon Chambers West

Olaf practises in public and commercial law.

He advises and appears on behalf of individuals, corporations and government agencies in administrative and constitutional law matters, as well as regulatory and general commercial matters.

Before coming to the Bar, Olaf was an associate to the Hon Justice Crennan AC of the High Court. He was later the Researcher to the Solicitor-General for Victoria and an associate to the Hon Justice McLeish of the Court of Appeal. As a solicitor, Olaf worked at the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office and Mallesons Stephen Jaques.

Olaf holds an appointment as a member of the Victoria Legal Aid Panel of Independent Reviewers.

 

*Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation

Areas of Practice

CommercialCompetitionConstitutional LawCorporate & CommercialCorporationsDiscrimination/Equal OpportunityElectoral LawEnergy RegulationEnvironmentFOI/PrivacyFraud, White Collar Crime and CorruptionHuman RightsJudicial ReviewMerits ReviewPublic LawRegulatoryRoyal Commissions/Government InquiriesTaxation & SuperannuationTrade Practices/Consumer Protection

Publications

  • Olaf was a reporter for the Commonwealth Law Reports from 2016 to 2022
  • “Techniques of Adjudication” in Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds), Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2018) (with Peter Hanks QC)
  • “The Principle of Legality and the General System of Law” in Matthew Groves and Dan Meagher (eds), The Principle of Legality in Australia and New Zealand (Federation Press, 2017) (with Justice Stephen McLeish)

QUALIFICATIONS

BSc (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Melb), LLM (Cantab)

Olaf holds bachelor’s degrees with first class honours in science and law from the University of Melbourne, where he received several academic prizes and scholarships. He also holds a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Supreme Court of Victoria – Trinity Hall Scholar and Honorary Cambridge Australia Scholar.

Olaf Ciolek

Bar Roll: 2015 Admitted: 2010
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Profile

61 414 954 024
Room 2207 Owen Dixon Chambers West

Olaf practises in public and commercial law.

He advises and appears on behalf of individuals, corporations and government agencies in administrative and constitutional law matters, as well as regulatory and general commercial matters.

Before coming to the Bar, Olaf was an associate to the Hon Justice Crennan AC of the High Court. He was later the Researcher to the Solicitor-General for Victoria and an associate to the Hon Justice McLeish of the Court of Appeal. As a solicitor, Olaf worked at the Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office and Mallesons Stephen Jaques.

Olaf holds an appointment as a member of the Victoria Legal Aid Panel of Independent Reviewers.

 

*Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards legislation

Areas of Practice

CommercialCompetitionConstitutional LawCorporate & CommercialCorporationsDiscrimination/Equal OpportunityElectoral LawEnergy RegulationEnvironmentFOI/PrivacyFraud, White Collar Crime and CorruptionHuman RightsJudicial ReviewMerits ReviewPublic LawRegulatoryRoyal Commissions/Government InquiriesTaxation & SuperannuationTrade Practices/Consumer Protection

Cases

Publication

  • Olaf was a reporter for the Commonwealth Law Reports from 2016 to 2022
  • “Techniques of Adjudication” in Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone (eds), Oxford Handbook of the Australian Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2018) (with Peter Hanks QC)
  • “The Principle of Legality and the General System of Law” in Matthew Groves and Dan Meagher (eds), The Principle of Legality in Australia and New Zealand (Federation Press, 2017) (with Justice Stephen McLeish)

Qualifications & Memberships

QUALIFICATIONS

BSc (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Melb), LLM (Cantab)

Olaf holds bachelor’s degrees with first class honours in science and law from the University of Melbourne, where he received several academic prizes and scholarships. He also holds a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Supreme Court of Victoria – Trinity Hall Scholar and Honorary Cambridge Australia Scholar.