Profile

Randall Kune LLB (Hons) (Melb) LLM (Melb) signed the Bar Roll in 1999 and practices in criminal law, family law and the children's court, civil litigation and administrative law. He is co-author of the  Advocacy Manual: The Complete Guide to Persuasive Advocacy, published by the Australian Advocacy Institute.

He completed his Articles of Clerkship at Galbally & O’Bryan and was admitted to practise in 1996, before completing his Master of Laws. He took leave from the Bar between 2006 and 2008, to take up the position of Solicitor and Clinical Supervisor at the Monash-Oakleigh Legal Service.

In addition to his practice, Randall has taught sessionally at Monash University Law School since 2002, particularly in advocacy, civil procedure, civil litigation practice, criminal law practice, and professional legal skills and responsibilities. He is currently a sessional lecturer at Monash, as well as a trained Advocacy Instructor with theAustralian Advocacy Institute (AAI). He is a former lecturer with The College of Law Victoria. Randall has published in the area of expert evidence, and is coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Forensic Studies through the International Institute of Forensic Studies at
Monash University Law School. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

R Kune 'The Stolen Generations in Court: Explaining the Lack of Widespread Successful Litigation by Members of the Stolen Generations' (2011) 30(1) University of Tasmania Law Review (In Press).

G Hampel, E Brimer and R Kune, Advocacy Manual, Australian Advocacy Institute,
Melbourne, 2008.

R Kune and G Kune, ‘Mainstream Medicine versus Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the Witness Box: Resolving the Clash of
Ideologies’ (2007) 14 Journal of Law and Medicine 425.

R Kune and G Kune, ‘Expert Medico-Scientific Evidence before Tribunals: Approaches to Proof, Expertise and Conflicting Opinions’ (2006) 13 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 1.

R Kune and G Kune, ‘Proof of Cancer Causation and Expert Evidence’ (2003) 11 Journal of Law and Medicine 112.

R Kune and J Kennan SC, ‘The State of Victoria’, in Professor Herbert M. Kritzer (ed), Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Historical Encyclopedia, ABC–CLIO, Santa Barbara, 2002. 

MEMBERSHIPS

Medico-Legal Society of Victoria

Victorian Council for Civil Liberties (Liberty Victoria)

Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)

Criminal Bar Association of Victoria

Commercial Bar Association of Victoria

Family Law Bar Association of Victoria 

Family Law Section
of the Law Council of Australia