Tom Danos

Tom Danos is a high profile barrister in Victoria, Australia. He mainly practices in the area of criminal law, and is Treasurer of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association.[1] Danos is a trustee member of the Maccabi World Union Board. He represented Australian athletes who were injured in the Maccabiah bridge collapse in Israel in 1997.[2] He also represented John Patrick Ford, a convicted man who gave evidence in the trial of alleged drug courier Schapelle Corby in Indonesia.[3]

Danos successfully represented Julian Michael Clarke before the Victorian Court of Appeal in 2005. Clarke's conviction at a first trial before the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2004 for the murder of Melbourne solicitor Keith William Allan, together with co-accused Sudo Cavkic and Costas Athanasi, was annulled, and a re-trial ordered.[4] Argument by Danos in relation to the definition of reasonable doubt, that the jury should have been told by the trial judge that it should not be construed as a percentage,[5] was accepted by the Court of Appeal. This judgment of the Court of Appeal created an important precedent in Australian law.[6]

Danos represented Clarke subsequently at the second trial in 2006 and third trial in 2007. The second trial resulted in a hung jury, but Clarke, together with his two other co-accused, were convicted at the third trial.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.vicbar.com.au/find-a-barrister/advanced-search/search-results/barrister-profile?1000
  2. ↑ http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s330096.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Corby-witness-attacked-in-jail-lawyer/2005/05/06/1115092686904.html
  4. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/court-quashes-murder-convictions/2005/08/02/1122748626700.html
  5. ↑ Daniel Fogarty (2005), "Man waits on appeal," Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 20 April, page 5
  6. ↑ http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/vic/VSCA/2005/182.html?query=^cavkic
  7. ↑ http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/vic/VICSC/2007/289.html?query=%22keith%20william%20allan%22


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