Marie Shaw KC
- Criminal
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Family
- Trade Practices
- Trusts
- Wills and Estates
- Appeals
Marie Shaw KC is consistently voted the preeminent criminal barrister in Adelaide.
She specialises in criminal law and general appellate work, but practice areas include civil, wills and estates, trusts, commercial, family, industrial and trade practices law.
Marie is often described as hardworking and driven by a desire to help the less fortunate.
High-profile criminal trials include suspected thrill killer Bevan Spencer von Einem, one of the accused Snowtown serial killers and, Henry Keogh, whose conviction for killing his wife was set aside.
Marie has spoken at schools, the Universities, to professional groups and to other community groups about criminal law issues.
Year Admitted to Practice:
1976
Date signed Bar Roll:
1985
Date Appointed Silk:
1996
Qualifications:
LLB (University of Adelaide)
Professional Appointments:
2022 Automatically appointed to Kings Counsel following the accession to the throne of King Charles III
2016 to present Barrister at Frank Moran Chambers
2010-2015 Barrister at Gilles Street, Chambers
2005-2010 Judge of the District Court of South Australia
2004 Appointed as Chief Counsel for the Legal Services Commission of South Australia
2001 Chairperson of the Criminal Law Committee of Law Society of South Australia
2000 Appointed as Member of Board of Examiners for admission to Legal Practice in South Australia
1999 Appointed as Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Commonwealth)
1996 Appointed Queen’s Counsel
1987-1989 Provided counsel work and advice to in house solicitors at the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement
1985 Commenced to practice as a Barrister at the Independent Bar
1982-1985 Partner at Moran and Partners
1976-1982 Salaried solicitor at Moran and Partners with general practice specialising in criminal counsel work
1976 Admitted to the Supreme Court of South Australia
1975-1976 Articles of Clerkship at Moran & McRae, Barristers & Solicitors
Principal Litigation:
High Court appearances as lead counsel:
Pfennig v The Queen [1995] HCA 7; (1992) 182 CLR 461
Inge v The Queen [1995] HCA 55; (1999) 199 CLR 295
Barns v Barns (Mutual Wills) [2003] HCA 9; (2003) 214 CLR 169
Douglass v The Queen [2012] HCA 34
Huynh v The Queen [2013] HCA 6
Lindsay v The Queen [2015] HCA 16
Police v Dunstall [2015] HCA 26
Presley v Director of Public Prosecutions (SA) [2016] HCA 30
Bucca v The Queen [2016] HCA 46
Perera-Cathcart v The Queen [2017] HCA 9
The Queen v Dickman [2017] HCA 24
Chiro v The Queen [2017] HCA 37
Hamra v The Queen [2017] HCA 38
DL v The Queen [2018] HCA 26
Johnson v The Queen [2018] HCA 48
Other notable South Australian cases as lead counsel:
The Queen v Von Einem (“Family Murders”) [1991] SASC 2740
The Queen v Haydon (“Snowtown murders”) see [2004] SASC 437 and [2005] SASC 16-23
Poniatowska v DPP (Cth) [2010] SASCFC 19
R v Keogh (No 2) [2014] SASCFC 136