Meredith Schilling

Background

About Meredith Schilling

Meredith has 17 years’ experience as a barrister and specialises in tax and public law. She regularly appears unled, including against Senior Counsel, in trials in state and commonwealth superior courts and tribunals, including in applications to the High Court. Meredith has an extensive tax advice and appearance practice, acting both for and against the Commissioner of Taxation and state revenue authorities in significant tax disputes concerning income tax, payroll tax, superannuation (taxation and regulation), the lawful exercise of statutory powers and tax recovery including insolvency related matters and mareva/freezing orders. Meredith has been recognised as a ‘Leading Tax Barrister Victoria’ in Doyles Guide 2018, 2020 and 2022 editions and was listed in ‘Best Lawyers of Australia’ (Litigation category) 2021, 2022 and 2023. She has presented seminars on tax topics as a guest lecturer in the University of Melbourne Tax Litigation Masters course, and to firms and professional bodies. Recent topics have included ethical considerations affecting government litigants, appeal rights from the AAT to the Federal Court, and recent developments in legal professional privilege. Meredith also has a wide-ranging public law practice. She regularly appears in judicial review proceedings concerning opinions of medical panels in the Victorian Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. She has appeared in regulatory proceedings involving decisions of the Medical Board and Health Complaints Commissioner and in migration and coronial proceedings. In 2020, Meredith led a successful appeal to the High Court as lead counsel for the appellant in ABT17 v Minister for Immigration and Border [2020] HCA 34. Meredith holds Juris Doctor and Masters degrees in law from the University of Melbourne. She graduated in 2003 with a first class honours average as the top student of her JD cohort and completed her Masters Degree in 2017 by research thesis in administrative law.