Chris Honnery
Level 6
169 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000
PRACTICE AREAS
Appellate
Discrimination Law
Human Rights Law
Migration & Refugee
Citizenship Law
Public International Law
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Environmental & Planning Law
Government Law
Public Law
Regulatory Law
Licensing Law
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Laws (University of Technology, Sydney) – 2013
Called to the NSW Bar: 2022
Called to the Bar of England and Wales: 2020
Admitted to Practice: 2015
Called to the NSW Bar: 2022
Called to the Bar of England and Wales: 2020
Admitted to Practice: 2015
Level 6
169 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000
PRACTICE AREAS
Appellate
Discrimination Law
Human Rights Law
Migration & Refugee
Citizenship Law
Public International Law
Administrative Law
Constitutional Law
Environmental & Planning Law
Government Law
Public Law
Regulatory Law
Licensing Law
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Laws (University of Technology, Sydney) – 2013
ABOUT
Chris’ practice covers administrative law, migration law, licensing and regulatory law, judicial review, tribunal proceedings, and complex statutory interpretation cases. He appears in court and tribunal proceedings across Australia and the Asia Pacific region.
Chris is an interstate member of the Victorian Bar and is admitted as a barrister in the Supreme Court of Nauru. Before being called to the NSW Bar in 2022, he successfully completed the England and Wales Bar Transfer Test, having worked in London at Hickman and Rose Solicitors and the head office of international media law organisation Article 19.
Chris also worked as a solicitor at Victoria Legal Aid, the Federal Court of Australia, and oversaw Craddock Murray Neumann’s judicial review practice representing asylum seekers detained on Nauru.
For more information about Chris, visit his website.
PUBLICATIONS
Back at the Border: When Protection Ends at Departure — Lessons from Plaintiff S15/2025. Dr Jason Donnelly and Chris Honnery on AUSPUBLAW (25 July 2025)
The Weight of Expectations: Ismail v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2024] HCA 2 on AUSPUBLAW (8 April 2024)
Yes Minister, you must exercise your intervention power personally: Davis v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship in the Journal of the NSW Bar Association (winter 2023)
Justice deferred: Plaintiff M1/2021 v Minister for Home Affairs on AUSPUBLAW (30 May 2022)
The confused construction of ‘non-refoulement’ in the Ministerial Directions for visa cancellations on AUSPUBLAW (29 April 2020)
The Immigration Assessment Authority and the Erosion of Fairness in Australia’s Refugee Framework for the University of Oxford’s Border Criminologies blog (6 December 2019)
SELECT CASES
Plaintiff S15/2025 v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs HCA S15/2025
CRRN v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2025] FCA 192
Forte Sydney Construction Pty Ltd v Department of Customer Service [2025] NSWSC 583
Baldwin v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force [2025] NSWCATAD 239
Gehlert v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs [2024] FCAFC 129
Ghimire v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2024] FCA 816
Korat v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2024] FCAFC 59
Warda v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2024] FCA 1252
BTA18 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2023] FCA 1272
CRRN v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs [2023] FCA 1050
ECE21 v Minister for Home Affairs [2023] FCAFC 52
FMI17 v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship & Multicultural Affairs [2022] FedCFamC2G 1045
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