Deane, Rachel

Rachel is a senior member of Dispute Resolution’s Security and Enforcement team in Melbourne. She specialises in law enforcement work, including post-sentence litigation, protecting sensitive Commonwealth information, coronial inquests and Royal Commissions, particularly where the interests of law enforcement agencies are affected. Her practice also focuses on defending administrative decisions made by law enforcement agencies in courts and tribunals, defending law enforcement agencies in challenges to their criminal investigative processes, summary prosecutions and litigation relating to extradition, mutual assistance and international prisoner transfers. She regularly advises law enforcement agencies on briefs of evidence, charging federal offenders, investigative issues, challenges to warrants, coercive powers and other investigative techniques, evidentiary issues and general criminal law and sentencing. Rachel has also acted for a range of Commonwealth agencies in civil penalty proceedings, as well as judicial and merits review proceedings (including anti-dumping and other customs-related litigation).