Barrister, Victorian Bar
Melbourne, VIC
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Shahed Sharify is a barrister at the Victorian Bar in Melbourne. He came to the Bar in 2020 and, immediately before that, was a solicitor at Victoria’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC). A published speaker biography describes his practice as commercial, public and employment law, and white-collar crime. The Victorian register of lawyers records his name as Mohammad Sharify, practising as Shahed Sharify.
Victorian Bar
2020
Before the Bar
Solicitor, IBAC
Register name
Mohammad Sharify
Practice
Commercial, public & employment law
Shahed Sharify came to the Victorian Bar in 2020 from the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission. He was among the 32 new barristers the Victorian Bar welcomed in October 2020, as reported by Lawyers Weekly. A speaker biography published for a continuing professional development session says that immediately before the Bar he was a solicitor at IBAC, where he worked on investigations into public corruption in Victoria.
His practice covers commercial, public and employment law, and white-collar crime, according to that biography, which also says he has an interest in public and police accountability and is regularly briefed in matters alleging abuse of public trust. His Victorian Bar profile lists practice categories of alternative dispute resolution, bankruptcy and insolvency, civil procedure, commercial law, corporations law, equity, government, public and administrative law, and tax and revenue.
Professional education. He has presented for other lawyers, including a session on malicious prosecution for a police accountability lawyers’ community of practice, and a paper on the ethics and practicalities of dealing with self-represented litigants published by Svenson Barristers.
His Victorian Bar profile lists these practice areas:
How a barrister is engaged. Barristers in Victoria are sole practitioners. They are ordinarily briefed by a solicitor rather than retained directly by a client, and their availability and fees are arranged through their clerk.
Sources: his Victorian Bar profile (practice categories, reviewed 17 September 2026) and his speaker biography for a police accountability CPD session, reviewed 17 September 2026. Practice information is supplied by the barrister and is not independently verified by the Victorian Bar or this site.
We searched Doyle’s Guide’s Victorian commercial litigation, employment, insolvency and administrative law counsel lists and did not find him listed. Doyle’s ranks a small share of the Bar, and junior barristers in particular, so absence from its lists is not a finding about a barrister’s work.
Shahed Sharify is listed on the Victorian register of lawyers kept by the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. The entry below is reproduced as it appeared on 17 September 2026.
The register records him as Mohammad Sharify. Barristers in Victoria are sole practitioners, which is why the “practising at” field shows his own name rather than a firm, and why accredited specialisation is recorded as not applicable — the Law Institute of Victoria specialist accreditation scheme is for solicitors.
His Victorian Bar profile carries his contact details. Barristers are normally briefed by a solicitor. If you do not yet have one, our matching service can put your matter in front of a lawyer who can then brief counsel if your matter needs it.
Shahed Sharify is a barrister at the Victorian Bar in Melbourne, practising in commercial, public and employment law and white-collar crime. He came to the Bar in 2020 after working as a solicitor at the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC).
The Victorian register of lawyers lists a barrister named Mohammad Sharify practising as Shahed Sharify, and the Victorian Bar lists him as Mr Shahed S. Sharify. Both entries refer to the same barrister.
According to a published speaker biography, he was a solicitor at IBAC, Victoria’s anti-corruption commission, immediately before coming to the Bar in 2020.
Contact details are on his Victorian Bar profile. Barristers are ordinarily briefed by a solicitor, so a member of the public would usually engage a lawyer first.
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