List G Barristers

List G Barristers

Rudi Kruse practises in public and commercial law.

Rudi acts for companies, regulators and government agencies in commercial, public and regulatory matters. He also acts in a broad range of native title and Aboriginal land rights matters across Australia for government parties, representative bodies and claimants. He has appeared in the High Court, Federal Court and State and Territory Supreme Courts at trial and appellate level, both led and unled. Some recent published cases in which he has been briefed are listed below.

Rudi advises Federal, State and Territory governments and agencies, and private entities, on a range of complex issues in commercial and regulatory law, constitutional law, administrative law, Aboriginal land rights and equity and trusts.

Before coming to the Bar, Rudi was an associate to the Hon Justice Hayne AC at the High Court of Australia (2014–2015), an associate to the Hon Justice McLeish at the Victorian Court of Appeal (2015), the Researcher to the Solicitor-General for Victoria (then Stephen McLeish SC) (2013–2014), and a solicitor at Minter Ellison (2011–2013). He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (2010), where he received a number of academic prizes and scholarships and was an editor of the Melbourne University Law Review.

Rudi was a reporter for the Commonwealth Law Reports between 2016 and 2023. He read with Michael Borsky KC.

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Commercial Bar Association

Australian Association of Constitutional Law

Migration Law Bar Association