• Criminal Law – including prosecutions and appeals in various courts for environmental offences; drug importation offences; white collar offences; and terrorism offences.

• Administrative Law – including challenges to disciplinary convictions in the military; to parole decisions; to workplace compensation decisions; to Local Court decisions.

• Corporations/Commercial Law – including insolvent trading claims; contract disputes; and insurance disputes.

• Equity – including probate and partnership disputes.

• Inquiries – including coronial inquests and ICAC proceedings.

• Other – including interstate and international extradition, proceedings under the Crimes (High Risk Offenders) Act; vexatious litigant applications; and common law.

Sophie Callan was called to the bar at a relatively early stage of her career, an associateship cementing her decision. She has successfully established a broad practice which includes the evidentiary rigours of criminal prosecuting work with the forensic nuances of commercial & corporations disputes.

For further information about Sophie, please also see her CV.

Selected recent appearances:

Criminal law

• State of New South Wales v Darryl John Phillips [2015] NSWSC 482

• State of New South Wales v Burns [2014] NSWSC 1014

• State of NSW v Scott [2014] NSWSC 276

• Attorney-General of NSW v McGuire (No.2) [2014] NSWSC 288

• New South Wales v Phillips [2014] NSWSC 205

• Connell v Santos NSW Pty Limited [2014] NSWLEC 1

• R v Sakovitis; R v Sakovitis [2013] NSWSC 464

• Khazaal v R (No 2) [2013] NSWCCA 140

• OEH v Rummery [2012] NSWLEC 271

• OEH v Kennedy [2012] NSWLEC 93
  

• R v Khazaal [2012] 289 ALR 586
  

• Krecichwost v R [2012] 88 ACSR 339
  

• Govindaraju v R [2011] NSWCCA 255
  

• New South Wales v Conway [2011] NSWSC 976
  

• Director-General, DECC v Walker Corporation Pty Limited (No 2) [2010] NSWLEC 73

Administrative Law 

• Lewis and Comcare [2015] AATA 285

• Howes and Comcare [2015] AATA 39

• Odell v Comcare [2014] AATA 591

• Boatswain v State Parole Authority [2014] NSWSC 501

• Warren Gibson, NSW Fair Trading v Roberta Graham [2013] NSWSC 1909

• Chun and Comcare [2013] AATA 603

• Pickett and Comcare [2013] AATA 516

• Li v Chief of Army [2013] 303 ALR 397 [2013] HCA 49 ; and Li v Chief of Army [2013] FCAFC 20

• Walshe v Comcare [2013] AATA 812

• Jones v Chief of Navy [2012] FCAFC 125
  

• SZQDZ v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (2012) 200 FCR 207

• Smith v MRCC  [2012] AATA 618

• Lawrence v Comcare [2011] AATA 752
  

• Re Sharma and Comcare [2010] AATA 730
  

Commercial

• Guvera Limited v de Vere [2015] FCA 1141

• Azmin Firoz Daya v CX Reinsurance Company Limited [2012] NSWSC 1622; [2012] NSWSC 1621; [2012] NSWSC 1620; [2012] NSWSC 1616; [2012] NSWSC 1294; [2012] NSWSC 1213

Employment/discrimination

• Farah v Australian Federal Police [2015] FWCFB 5426

• Farah v Australian Federal Police [2015] FWC 2667

• Haraksin v Murrays Australia Limited (No 2) [2013] FCA 217

Inquests

• Inquest into the death of Adam Southwick

• Inquest into the deaths arising from the Lindt Café siege

• Inquest into the Quakers Hill Nursing Home fire

Other

• Nakane v New Zealand [2014] FCAFC 153  and Nakane v New Zealand [2014] FCA 772

• Killick v The Commissioner of Police New South Wales (No 2) [2014] NSWSC 1050; and Killick v The Commissioner of Police New South Wales [2014] NSWSC 781

• Herrick v Knowles [2014] NSWSC 1223 and Herrick v Knowles (No 2) [2015] NSWSC 54

• Haraksin v Murrays Australia Ltd (No 2) [2013] FCA 217

• Hardie Holdings Pty Ltd v New South Wales [2012] NSWSC 1152

• Attorney General v Rouvinetis [2012] NSWSC 328

• Pao v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church [2011] NSWSC 1216

• Mcgrath v Troy As Administratrix of the Estate of the Late Warren Terence Wade [2010] NSWSC 1470

• Azmin Firoz Daya v Cx Reinsurance Company Limited [2012] NSWSC 1620

• Judge Advocate and Defence Force Magistrate (sworn in 12/02/2021)
• Flight Lieutenant, Royal Australian Air Force (Reserve Legal Officer) (June 2011 to present);
• Councillor, Bar Council  (November 2010 to November 2011; November 2012 – present);
• Chair, New Barristers Committee (June 2011 to June 2013);
• Member, Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Association of New South Wales (2010 to present);
• Councillor, New South Wales Council of Law Reporting (2010 to present).