Linda Barnes

Linda has practiced almost exclusively in criminal law for more than 24 years and focuses on jury trials, bail applications in the Supreme, District and Local Courts, as well as sentence hearings and appeals.

Linda has extensive experience in all stages of the Early Appropriate Guilty Plea (EAGP) scheme including case conferences and negotiating appropriate pleas and appearing on sentence hearings and trials. Her experience includes offences of attempted murder, drug supply and importation, firearm offences, sexual assault, child exploitation, identity crime, money laundering and fraud.

Linda also has a practice appearing in coronial inquests, Commissions of Inquiry, disciplinary proceedings and before statutory bodies including the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC), NSW Crime Commission and other compulsory examinations. She represented clients at the Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes, Operation Landon (ICAC Public Inquiry in relation to School Infrastructure NSW) and the Special Commission of Inquiry into circumstances surrounding the offences committed by the former NSW correctional officer Wayne Astill.

Linda is on the Legal Aid Complex Crime Barrister Panel, the Legal Aid Indictable Crime Barrister Panel, the Legal Aid Summary Panel and the Legal Aid Child Crime Panel.