One of South Australia’s Leading Barristers Chambers
The barristers of Campbell Chambers are engaged for their expert knowledge of the law, especially family law, their advocacy and their highly regarded dispute resolution skills.
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Barristers
The Hon. Steven Strickland KC
Steve has almost fifty years’ experience in family law as a Judge, Solicitor and Barrister (Queen’s Counsel, now King’s Counsel). He was a Justice of the Family Court of Australia for twenty two years, including twelve years as a Member of the Appeal Division of that Court, and for the last three years the administrative head of that Division.
Steve was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1998, and has practised extensively throughout Australia in family and de facto law and appeals. He has an Honours Degree in Law from the University of Adelaide, and a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of British Columbia. He is an Adjunct Professor, Law School, Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, and an Adjunct Professor, School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University.
Steve is a nationally accredited Mediator and a nationally registered Arbitrator, as well as being a member of the National Sports Tribunal.
He is a former Director of the Australian Institute of Family Law Arbitrators and Mediators, a life member of that Institute, and Chair of its Arbitration Committee. He is also a former Chair of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.
The Hon. Steven Strickland QC
Membership of Professional Organisations
- Family Law Section, Law Council of Australia.
- Law Society of South Australia.
- South Australian Bar Association.
- Pacifica Congress.
- Australian Judicial Officers Association.
Areas of Practice
- Family and de facto.
- Arbitration
- Mediation
Admitted to Practice
- 1973 (SA).
- 1975 (High Court of Australia).
- 1976 (NT).
Qualifications
- LLB (Hons) (U of A) – 1973.
- LLM (UBC) -1979.
- Appointed QC – 1998.
- Appointed Judge of the Family Court of Australia – 1999.
- Assigned to the Appeal Division of the Family Court of Australia – 2009.
- Appointed Administrative Head of the Appeal Division – 2019.
Ross Richards
Ross has worked almost exclusively in family law as a Solicitor, Family Court Registrar and Barrister since his admission in 1973.
He has worked as Counsel in family law since joining the SA Bar in 1987.
Membership of Professional Organisations
- Family Law Section, Law Council of Australia
- South Australian Bar Association
Areas of Practice
- Family and de facto law
- Mediation
Margaret Ross
Margaret is a barrister, mediator and arbitrator in Australia, where she has been a legal practitioner for 40 years and a mediator for 32 years. She joined the Independent Bar in 1993. She specialises in Family Law, Mediation and Dispute Management in a wide area of disputes.
Margaret is a Nationally Accredited Mediator and a Registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner. She has mediated over 1,500 disputes since 1990.
She is a Nationally Accredited Family Arbitrator.
She has conducted dispute resolution and mediation courses for several Universities and has co-designed and facilitated dispute resolution courses for government and non-government organisations in Australia. Margaret has presented at national and international conferences in relation to mediation and the law and has published several papers on this area.
Margaret Ross
Professional Background
- 1980 – Admission to practice as Barrister & Solicitor in Supreme Court of SA & High Court
- 1981-1982 – Associate to Justice Roma Mitchell, Supreme Court of South Australia
- 1982-1993 – Barrister and solicitor South Australia
- 1993-1994 – Barrister at Law SA Independent Bar specialising in Family Law De Facto and Criminal Injuries & dispute resolution
- 1995-present – Barrister‑at‑Law SA Independent Bar
- 1990-1996 – Sessional Mediator at Relationships Australia (SA)
- 1990-present – Barrister, Mediator and Facilitator
- 1997-2003 – Arbitrator/Conciliator (Senior Case Officer), Child Support Agency
- 2008-present – National Accreditation as a Mediator
- 2009 – Registration as a Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner
- 2012-present – Mediation Trainer and Facilitator
- 2013‑2015 – Accredited Facilitator in the Defence Abuse Response Taskforce Restorative Engagement Program
Peter Heinrich
Peter has over 46 years’ experience in civil law disputes.
Between 1978 and April 2006 Peter worked as a solicitor in private practice in Adelaide. For most of that time he was a partner in one of Adelaide’s largest firms that was the predecessor to Minter Ellison. During this time Peter represented parties in civil disputes across a wide range of practice areas and for the last 10 years there Peter was the leader of one of the firm’s civil disputes practice teams.
In April 2006 Peter commenced practising as a barrister at Campbell Chambers.
Peter has been a member of the Law Society of South Australia since January 1979.
Peter Heinrich
Areas of Practice
- Commercial disputes
- Corporations law
- Contract (business, real estate, sale of goods, consumer protection etc)
- Equity and trusts (including constructive and resulting trusts, proprietary estoppel, equitable compensation)
- Estate claims and disputes (including inheritance family provision and validity of wills)
- Family and de facto (financial division and children’s issues)
- Insurance
- Landlord & tenant
- Personal injury claims (medical malpractice, product liability, public liability – claimants and respondents)
- Professional liability
- Real estate (including caveats, mortgages and equitable interests)
Admitted to Practice
December 1978 (South Australia).
1979 (High Court of Australia).
Qualifications
Bachelor of laws (University of Adelaide) 1978.
David Fryer
David is a barrister, practising nationally with a primary focus on complex family law and child protection matters. He is widely recognised for his work in high-stakes parenting disputes, particularly those involving allegations of sexual abuse of children, serious family violence, and other sensitive risk issues. His practice spans both first instance and appellate advocacy.
David began his career in general practice, where he developed a focus on family law, child protection, and both the prosecution and defence of criminal and intervention order matters. He went on to hold senior roles as Special Counsel and Principal of his own practice before returning to Special Counsel and ultimately moving to the Independent Bar.
He holds a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours), a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, and has undertaken additional studies in theoretical offending models within the field of youth justice.
David is admitted to practice in the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of South Australia and the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. He is a member of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and the Law Society of South Australia, and has previously served on the Law Society’s Family Law Committee and its Children & the Law Committee.
David has also been published for his independent research assessing false sexual abuse allegations within family law proceedings: False Allegations in Family Law Proceedings: Using the Family Court as a Sword, Not a Shield (2013) 3 Family Law Review 137, (Thomson Reuters), research examining the capacity for a parent to prolong proceedings by knowingly making a false abuse allegation, and the implications for the child and the falsely accused parent within the then-existing legal framework.
David is currently a serving member of the South Australian Bar Association’s Bullying, Discrimination and Harassment Committee. He also holds a Statutory Appointment as an Assessor on the Legal Services Commission Panel of Assessors, providing a review mechanism for applicants refused legal aid funding.
David regularly appears for privately funded and legally aided clients, and acts for Independent Children’s Lawyers. While his practice is centred on family law and child protection, he is also briefed in related criminal and intervention order proceedings where they arise directly from, or intersect with, family law litigation. His practice includes:
- Parenting matters, including high-conflict and high-risk disputes.
- Financial and property settlements.
- Child protection proceedings.
- Cross-jurisdictional matters involving family law, child protection, and related criminal or intervention order allegations.
- First instance and appellate advocacy.
- Provision of written legal opinions, including merit assessments, advice on prospects of success, and strategic guidance in complex or contested matters.
Antonella Rodriguez
Antonella has practised primarily in family law since her admission in 2018 and she is pleased to accept briefs in all areas of family law, including parenting and financial matters as well as ICL and legal aid work.
Antonella commenced her legal career as the Legal Associate to the Honourable Justice Berman in the Family Court of Australia (as it then was). She gained significant exposure to complex litigation both in respect of parenting and financial matters and further, had the opportunity to assist the Judicial Council on Cultural Diversity with a number of key projects including a literature review on cultural considerations in alternative dispute resolution.
Antonella was named the Law Society of South Australia’s “Young Lawyer of the Year” in 2021 due to her contribution to the law and to her community. She is an active volunteer in her community and within the legal profession. Antonella is a longstanding member of the Women Lawyers’ Association of South Australia and has served on the committee since August 2022. She holds professional membership with the Law Society of South Australia, the Family Law Section, and PRIDE in Law.
Jack Hetzel-Bone
Jack completed a double degree of Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice and Bachelor of Behavioural Science at Flinders University. He was admitted to Practice on 12 September 2011.
From 2012 until 2014 he practised in the country in general legal practices where he worked in criminal law, family law, personal injury, wills & estates, WorkCover, and civil litigation.
Since 2015 he has practised primarily in family law and wills and estates with a focus on estate litigation.
He is available to accept briefs in the following:
- Family law (such as financial property settlements, parenting matters and child support) including legal aid work.
- Adoption proceedings or contested applications for change of a child’s name in SACAT under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996 (SA).
- Equity and trusts (including constructive and resulting trusts, and proprietary estoppel).
- Estate claims and disputes (including inheritance family provision and validity of wills).
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History
Steven Strickland and Geoffrey Noble established the first Family Court Chambers in Adelaide in 1984. The third barrister, Robert Park, was not a Family Court lawyer, however, and ever since Campbell Chambers has always housed barristers who practised in other areas.
Strickland and Noble were aware of the nascent trend of naming chambers after State Judges but opted for an early contributor to the development of divorce law. Lord John Campbell (1779–1861) was the son of a minister in Fife, Scotland, who joined Lincoln’s Inn around the turn of the nineteenth century. Campbell entered parliament and was Attorney–General from 1834 to 1841.
Campbell was a friend of Charles Dickens, and it may have been through the great novelist that the politician came to understand the problems of getting a divorce for poor people. Divorces were practically impossible to get for them. He tried for many years to get a divorce reform bill through parliament, but it was not until he had left in 1857 and was Lord Chief Justice that the “Act to amend the Law relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England” was finally passed. Nevertheless, Lord Campbell was responsible for this landmark legislation which allowed divorces for anyone without regard to their class.
In 1859 he was appointed Lord Chancellor at almost eighty years old. He died just two years later, working and enjoying life until his last day.
Locations
1984 – Opened At 118 King William Street Adelaide
1995 – Moved To 22 Grenfell Street Adelaide
2004 – Moved To 360 King William Street Adelaide
2017 – Moved To 113 Carrington Street Adelaide
Members
Members in approximate order of joining:
| THE HON. STRICKLAND KC, Steven Andrew | (1984-1999) (2022-current) |
| NOBLE, Geoffrey Robert | (1984-2014) |
| PARK, Robert David | (1984-1985) |
| MORCOMBE KC, Neville Wayne | (1985-2000) |
| HEVEY, Gary | (1985-1987) |
| CUMMINS, John Gabriel | (1986-1994) |
| McNAMARA, Philip Anthony | (1986-1995) |
| McCARTHY, Craig D | (1989-1995) |
| RICHARDS, Ross Anthony | (1994-current) |
| THE HON. MEAD, Christine | (1995-1999) |
| MORCOMBE, John Andrew | (1995-2006) |
| THE HON. BERMAN KC, David Michael | (1995-2013) |
| JOLLY, Edward | (1998-1999) |
| LINDSAY, Stuart Hamilton | (1998-1999) |
| JEFFRIES, Catherine Ann | (1999-2005) |
| McQUADE, Brian William | (1999-2005) |
| ROSS, Margaret Eleanor | (2000-current) |
| MOFFA, Andrew | (2000-2017) |
| HEINRICH, Peter | (2006-2017) (2020-current) |
| HURLEY, Noelle | (2006-2014) |
| STATE CORONER WHITTLE, David | (2003-2010) |
| BIRCHALL, Tom | (2007-2015) |
| BASHEER, Jayne | (2007-2015) |
| THE HON. JUSTICE KARI, Penelope | (2011-2018) |
| THE HON. JUSTICE ANDERSON, Mark | (2014-2020) |
| DILLON, John | (2014-2017) |
| PRAOLINI, Daniel | (2018-2023) |
| FRYER, David | (2024-Current) |
| RODRIGUEZ, Antonella | (2025-Current) |
| HETZEL-BONE, Jack | (2025-Current) |
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