Kaminni Kumar

Kaminni commenced her career in criminal law in January 2011, when she interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, Netherlands. While there for six months, she was assigned to the Office of the Prosecutor and the case of Prosecutor v. Vojislav Seselj, IT-03-67-T during which time she assisted with work relating to crimes against humanity and war crimes including murder, torture and forced deportation committed in Hrtkovci, Serbia.

In 2012, Kaminni was admitted as a legal practitioner and started out in general private practice. From August 2013, Kaminni worked closely with a senior criminal law barrister, on various complex criminal cases, for both prosecution and defence ranging drug importation to homicide.

In February 2016, Kaminni joined Equus Chambers, a set of chambers dedicated to advocacy at all levels of criminal prosecutions for both State and Commonwealth offences. She routinely defends in the District Court of WA accepting trials in Perth and rural WA.

In recent years, Kaminni has built an appellate practice preparing appeals and acting as counsel in the Court of Appeal and for single judge appeals in the Supreme Court of WA. She also accepts briefs to advise on merit in appealing convictions or sentence from lower and superior courts.

Kaminni is a member on the serious indictable, sex crime and appeals panels for Legal Aid WA.