Senior Lawyer – Administrative Law/Statutory Interpretation
- Secondment opportunity within a Commonwealth Agency
- Provide legal advice on administrative law and statutory interpretation
- Engage with high-level stakeholders across various client areas
The Role
We currently have a secondment opportunity within a Commonwealth Agency that is seeking a lawyer with administrative law and statutory interpretation experience to work on a variety of legal projects.
The Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be required to work as a secondee within the Commonwealth clients’ in-house legal team. High level stakeholder engagement skills are required as the successful candidate will be required to provide advice and assistance to a wide range of client areas.
The successful candidate will provide a variety of legal advice on subjects including:
- statutory interpretation of legislation and sub-ordinate instruments;
- applying administrative law principles to business decisions and advising on process issues;
- providing advice on program legislation;
- responding to legal advice requests related to automated decision making and legislative reform; and
- providing advice related to Social Security Law, Family Assistance Law and Health Legislation.
The Requirements
A current practising certificate (or ability to obtain one) and a current (minimum) Baseline security clearance experience is essential.
Previous experience advising on Commonwealth administrative law including on automated decision making, legislative reform (including Social Security Law) would be highly regarded.
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