Occupation Solicitor Residence Sydney, Australia | Name Thomas Spohr Years active 9 | |
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Education Bachelor of Law (Honours), Bachelor of Arts Employer Office Director of Public Prosecutions (New South Wales) Organization Law Society of New South Wales Home town Sydney, New South Wales | ||
Alma mater University of Wollongong | ||
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Thomas Spohr is an Australian solicitor and prosecutor. He was an appointed councillor of the Law Society of New South Wales (representing NSW Young Lawyers), and was president of NSW Young Lawyers in 2014. Spohr is a member of the board of the Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation, and a member of the Legal Profession Admission Board Legal Qualifications Committee, which is charged with accrediting law degrees in New South Wales. He was the chair of the New South Wales Young Lawyers Criminal Law Committee for over three years.
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Education
Spohr obtained his law degree from the University of Wollongong, graduating in Arts and Law (with Honours) in 2006.
Career
Spohr is a prosecutor at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (New South Wales). He has been involved in widely reported prosecutions, including the $45.3 million fraud by Rajina Subramaniam (said to be one of the largest by an individual in Australia’s history), the prosecution of Katherine Abdallah for the murder of her cousin, Suzie Sarkis, and the appeal by Carnita Matthews against her conviction for a traffic offence allegedly committed whilst wearing a burqa. Spohr was at one stage a private criminal law practitioner, appearing for Andrew Jones, a person of interest in the high-profile coronial inquiry into the disappearance of Janine Vaughan.
During his term as president of New South Wales Young Lawyers, Spohr voluntarily reduced his paid employment to part-time in order to carry out the role more fully.