Elizabeth Hollingworth holds a BJuris (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from the University of Western Australia, and a BCL from Oxford. Awarded the prize for the most outstanding LLB student, combined with leadership, she was the first Australian woman lawyer to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
She worked as a litigation solicitor from 1987, until she joined the Victorian Bar in 1991. She practised as a barrister and mediator in a broad range of commercial, common and administrative law litigation, and was appointed senior counsel in 2002.
She is a current or past member of various committees and boards, including: Council of Legal Education, Forensic Leave Panel, Public Interest Law Clearing House, Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Evidence Act Monitoring Committee, Legal Profession Tribunal, and Patent & Trade Marks Attorneys Disciplinary Tribunal.
She has delivered numerous papers at seminars and conferences on a broad range of topics, including evidence, trade practices, contracts, procedure and judgment writing. She has previously taught civil procedure, advocacy and dispute management as a Senior Fellow in the JD programme at Melbourne University.
Appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in June 2004. She sits as a judge in a broad range of civil and criminal trials and appeals
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