Level 6
169 Phillip Street
Sydney NSW 2000

Administrative Law
Child Abduction
Commercial & Contracts
Competition & Consumer Law
Conflict of Laws
Discrimination Law
Family Law – Property and Parenting
Family Provision
Human Rights Law
Inquests & Inquiries
Private International Law
Public International Law
Trusts
Wills & Estate

COMMON LAW

LL.M (With Distinction), University of New South Wales, Australia (2009)

LL.B (With Upper Second Class Honours), University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (2003)

Completion of required subjects to be admitted to legal practice in NSW (With Merit)

LPAB – LEC University of Sydney, Australia (2010)

CIVIL LAW

Master’s Degree in Private Asset Protection (DESS / By Coursework) (With Honours), Université Bordeaux IV, France (2005)

Master’s Degree in Family Law (DEA / By Research) (With Honours), Université Lyon 3, France (2004)

Postgraduate Diploma in European and Comparative Law (With Highest Distinction), Université Bordeaux IV, France (2003)

Law Degree: Licence in Civil Law (With Honours), Université Bordeaux IV, France (2002)

Sandrine was admitted as a solicitor in 2010 and was called to the NSW Bar in 2011. She has a general practice with a strong focus on international law.

Sandrine regularly appears in the Supreme Court of NSW and Family Court of Australia in international succession and divorce matters. She also advises and appears in international commercial matters as well as in migration cases. Sandrine holds a keen interest in Human Rights which she studied in both Australia and France.

Prior to moving to Australia, Sandrine worked as a Legal Officer with the Permanent Bureau of The Hague Conference on Private International law and in the banking industry in Paris. Sandrine holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in law, both in Common Law and Civil Law systems.

Sandrine is bilingual English and French, and has an intermediate level of Spanish.

Droit de l’Australie (Chapter on Family Law and Succession Law, “La famille”), June 2016, LGDJ Lextenso.

International parenting and child protection matters beyond the specific issue of parental child abduction: The 1996 Hague Convention on the International Protection of Children, Children Australia, Special Issue 2013, Cambridge University Press.

Chapter on International Family Law, in The Practitioner’s Guide to International Law, the Law Society of New South Wales Young Lawyers (LexisNexis Butterworth, 2nd ed., 2014).

Next Steps Regarding the New Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance: Introduction to the Future Implementation Guide and Implementation Issues, The Judges’ Newsletter on International Child Protection, HCCH & Lexis Nexis Butterworths, Vol. 14, Winter 2008-09.

La médiation familiale internationale dans le contexte des Conventions de La Haye, des perspectives de nouveaux développements, drawn up on behalf of the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference of Private International Law, co-authored with Juliane Hirsch, in La Revue Scientifique de l’AIFI, Editions Y. Blais, Vol. 1 No 2, Autumn 2007.