Miss Rhanee Rego

Rhanee joined Newcastle Law School as a sessional academic in early 2020. She has taught in the areas of property and tort law, legal system and method, and has been a guest lecturer on matters involving criminal law and ethics.

Rhanee is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia. Rhanee works for a private firm working on a pro bono basis in the area of criminal law. She has also worked previously in the areas of personal injury and workers compensation, insurance and superannuation, employment and industrial relations, administrative law and dealt with a range of novel contractual disputes. Rhanee also previously worked for the Older Persons Legal Clinic at Newcastle Law School where she provided free legal advice and representation to older people in the Newcastle and Central Coast regions. 

Rhanee is a PhD candidate at the University of Newcastle. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake her doctoral studies. Her PhD research is a critical analysis of post-conviction review mechanisms in New South Wales. As a result of Rhanee’s direct involvement in post-conviction review as a solicitor, she is evaluating the effectiveness of existing post-conviction review mechanisms and considering proposals for reform. Rhanee has assisted Kathleen Folbigg for a number of years, including acting for her in an Inquiry into her convictions in 2019. In March 2021 (and separately to her work with Newcastle Law School), Rhanee co-authored a petition calling on the Governor of NSW to pardon Kathleen Folbigg based on the fact there are natural causes of death for each of Folbigg children and new genetic evidence revealed a lethal cardiac mutation in the two Folbigg girls. 

Outside of Rhanee’s doctoral research, she has varied scholarly interests that span across multiple areas of the law, including research into the impact of investigative genetic genealogy on due process in criminal investigations.