Ms Miiko Kumar
BA LLB (Sydney)
Senior Lecturer
F10 - Law School (Camperdown)
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Miiko Kumar is a Barrister and a Senior Lecturer in the University of Sydney Law School. Miiko teaches both compulsory and elective courses in Evidence and Procedure. Miiko was admitted as a solicitor in 1996 and called to the Bar in 2001. As a solicitor, she worked at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) and Crown Solicitor's Office. She was a law reform officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission and worked on the adversarial system of litigation inquiry; Managing Justice, A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System, Report No 89 (2000). As a barrister, some of the significant cases that she has appeared in are Bashford v Information Australia (2004) 218 CLR 366, Palmer Bruyn & Parker Pty Ltd v Parsons (2001) 208 CLR 388, Cremona v RTA (2001) 35 MVR 19, Village Building Co Ltd v Canberra International Airport Pty (2004) 210 ALR 114 and Dasreef Pty Ltd v Hawchar (2011) 243 CLR 588.
Miiko was an Advisory Committee Member and Consultant on the Australian Law Reform Commission's review of the Evidence Act; Uniform Evidence Law, Report No 102, (2005). Miiko is the co-author of Companion to Uniform Evidence Law with Stephen Odgers SC and Dr Elisabeth Peden, which was first published in 2004 (fourth edition published in 2012) and Principles of Civil Procedure in New South Wales (second edition published in 2012, with Dorne Boniface and Michael Legg). Miiko is also the examiner for the NSW Bar evidence exam and is a member of the Exam Working Party Committee of the NSW Bar Association.
Research interests
- Evidence
- Civil and criminal procedure
- Comparative evidence law
Associations
- Barrister, New South Wales Bar Association
- Legal Practitioner, Supreme Court of New South Wales
- Roll of Legal Practitioners, High Court of Australia
Selected grants
2017
- Not Guilty; the Sydney Exoneration Project (Project-based units); van Golde C, Kumar M; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.
Selected publications
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Civil Procedure in New South Wales - 3rd Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015)
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Secrecy, Law and Society (Routledge, 2015)
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Ten Years of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW): A Decade of Insights and Guide to Future Litigation (Thomson Reuters, 2015)
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Uniform Evidence Law: Commentary and Materials - 5th Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015)
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Evidence: Commentary & Materials - Eighth Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2013)
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Principles of Civil Procedure in New South Wales (2nd edition) (Thomson Reuters, 2012)
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Uniform Evidence Law: Commentary and Materials (4th edition) (Thomson Reuters, 2012)
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Principles of Civil Procedure in New South Wales (Thomson Lawbook Co. (Thomson Reuters), 2009)
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Uniform Evidence Law: Commentary and Materials (3rd edition) (Thomson Reuters, 2009)
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A Companion to Uniform Evidence Law (Thompson LBC, 2007)
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A Companion to Uniform Evidence Law - First Edition (Lawbook Co., 2004)
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