The Honourable Justice Michael Croucher
Justice Croucher grew up in Myrtleford in the north-east of Victoria. He left school in Year 10 in an attempt to race motocross professionally. At the same time, he worked in tobacco farming and logging.
After working as a labourer on building sites in London and travelling the UK and Europe, at 25, he returned to his local secondary school to do Year 12, after which he moved to Melbourne to study economics and law at Monash University.
He did his articles of clerkship in a family and criminal law firm and practiced as a solicitor for two years after admission.
He went to the Bar in 1999. His practice at the Bar involved mostly criminal matters, in both Victoria and interstate, with an emphasis on appeals to the Court of Appeal and the High Court. He took silk in 2011.
He believes that the VIFM is essential to the administration of justice in this State.’