Rose Khalilizadeh

​Admitted as a legal practitioner in 2011
Admitted as a barrister in 2017

Principal areas of practice

• Criminal law
• Children's criminal law
• Criminal appeals
• Commissions of inquiry and inquests

Rose Khalilizadeh was admitted to the Bar after working as a solicitor at Legal Aid NSW, the Children’s Legal Service, the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT and in private criminal practice. Prior to that, she was Tipstaff to Justice Roger Giles (NSW Court of Appeal) and held various positions at the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and the NSW Legislative Council.

Rose appears in a wide range of criminal matters, including jury trials, appeals, contested hearings, sentence matters, Children’s Court matters, High Risk Offender applications and matters before various boards and tribunals. 

Selected cases of note

• R v Balla [2021] NSWCCA 325 – Crown appeal, dangerous driving occasioning death
• State of New South Wales v ST (Preliminary) [2022] NSWSC 491 – High Risk Offender, right to silence
• Smith v R [2020] NSWCCA 181 – sentence appeal, motor vehicle manslaughter, manifest excess
• Taha v R [2019] NSWCCA 240 – sentence appeal, firearms, drug supply (led by T Game SC)
• Purdie v R [2019] NSWCCA 22 – sentence appeal, procedural fairness (led by G Turnbull SC)
• Perkins v R [2018] NSWCCA 62 – sentence appeal, Bugmy factors (led by G Bashir SC)
• R v Collaery (No 12) [2022] ACTSC 108; R v Collaery (No 6) [2020] ACTSC 164; R v Collaery (No 7) [2020] ACTSC 165; R v Collaery (No 8) [2020] ACTSC 200 – (led by P Boulten SC, CS Ward SC)
  
• TR v Constable Cox & Ors [2020] NSWSC 389 – appeal, female magistrate order (led by C Ronalds SC)
• R v Afu; R v Caleo (No 17) [2018] NSWSC 1127 – murder trial (led by G Brady SC)
• R v Fortune (a pseudonym) [2021] NSWDC 68 – exclusion of expert evidence
• R v Large [2019] NSWDC 627 – exclusion of evidence of search, random breath test

Professional appointments and memberships

• Board Member, Diverse Women in Law, 2021-2022
• Bar Councillor, NSW Bar Association 2020-2022
• Committee member, Criminal Law Committee, NSW Bar Association 2017-2022
• Committee member, Legal Aid Committee, NSW Bar Association 2017-2022
• Committee member, Professional Conduct Committee 2020-2022
• Committee member, Juvenile Justice Committee, Law Society NSW 2016

Papers and presentations
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• “Doli Incapax – The Criminal Responsibility of Children”, (with Matthew Johnston SC), March 2022
• “Recent Sentencing Decisions”, Legalwise Criminal Law Conference: Evidence and Sentencing, November 2021

• Doli Incapax and Child Criminal Responsibility: Developments and Prospects for Reform (with the Hon. Adam Searle MLC), NSW Labor Lawyers, October 2021
• Cross-examination: to put or not to put – Legal Aid Criminal Law Conference, 2021
• Advocacy Workshop, Diverse Women in Law, October 2020
• Advocacy Masterclass (delivered to in-house Legal Aid senior lawyers), October 2020
• Exclusion of Improperly or Illegally Obtained Evidence, Legalwise Seminars, March 2020
• COVID-19 – Effects, Australian Academy of Law, June 2020
• Appearing in Court in the Year 2020 (COVID-19), Legal Aid video CPD (with R El-Choufani and D Pace) May 2020
• ‘The EAGP experience for defence practitioners at the private Bar” (with S Hall SC and P Boulten SC), as part of ‘One year of early appropriate guilty pleas?” by B Baker, Bar News: Journal of the NSW Bar Association, Winter 2019.
  
• Crime Scenes, Legalwise Seminars, March 2019
• Bail, Legal Aid Criminal Law Division Podcast Series, 2018
• Separation of trials, Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT in-house training, 2018
• Preparing briefs for hearings and trials, Legal Aid Criminal Law Conference 2018 (with R Leary)

Publications

• Criminal Law Practical Guidance ("Arrest", "Bail" and "Sentencing"), LexisNexis 
• NSW Law Reports (headnote author), Council of Law Reporting for NSW

Academic Background
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• University of Sydney, Faculty of Law (Civil & Criminal Procedure, 2011-2016; Torts, 2011)

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Qualifications
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• Bachelor of Laws (Hons); University of Sydney
• Bachelor of Arts (Government/International Relations); University of Sydney             

For further details or enquiries regarding Rose Khalilizadeh’s areas of expertise, fees and terms of engagement please contact her Clerk.


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