Guy Gilbert

Guy Gilbert SC is a highly esteemed and respected Barrister, recently retired, with forty-five years of practice in the legal profession. Guy attained the distinction of being appointed as a Senior Counsel (SC) in 2017. As a barrister, Guy’s practice has spanned more than four decades, during which he has had countless litigation successes in public interest law cases. Guy’s legal expertise and practice has included immigration and refugee law, criminal and OHS law, coronial inquests, and international extradition matters. In addition, Guy has served as a member of both the Refugee Review Tribunal and the Mental Health Review Tribunal. Guy also worked for Community Aid Abroad (now Oxfam Australia), in Sudan in 1985, co-managing a refugee health program, and then spent some years co-working for CAA in Melbourne in the late 1980’s, in disaster relief, working predominantly with internally displaced in the Horn of Africa. 

Guy’s legal experience, expertise and excellence has been recognised with multiple awards, including the prestigious John Gibson Award, the Law Council of Australia Outstanding Contribution to Immigration Law Award, and regular recognition in Australia’s Best Lawyers for Immigration and Occupational Health and Safety, and in Doyle’s Guide for Occupational Health and Safety

Guy is a member of CPA Australia, and brings with him a wealth of governance experience, having previously served on a number of Boards, including as Chair of both the Victorian Migration Bar Association, International Commission of Jurists (Victoria) Executive Committee; Co-Chair of the Sudd Foundation, an NGO which assists youth and single mothers of South Sudanese background who are struggling to adapt to Australian society; Board member of Home Ground Services, a housing and homeless services provider (which since merged with Hanover Welfare Services to become Launch Housing). He remains a trustee of Wellwishers Trust, a NFP organisation that raises funds for the construction of water wells and related hygiene education in Ethiopia, an extension of more than 40 years of his community development work in capacity building projects in Africa. 

Guy is a friend of the ASRC, who has mentored and supported our own Human Rights Law Program.