Daye is regularly briefed to appear in a wide range of courts, unled or with a leader. She also has a strong academic and advice background, and is currently completing her PhD at Monash University. She welcomes both briefs to advise and to appear. Her achievements in legal practice and human rights advocacy have been recognised by awards from the International Bar Association, Lawyers’ Weekly 30 Under 30, and the Avant-Garde Victorian Bar Readers’ Grant – see further details below.
Daye practices in the following areas:
- public and administrative law, particularly migration, child protection, and human rights matters;
- quasi-criminal and regulatory matters, including transport matters;
- criminal law, with particular experience in victims’ compensation and summary crime;
- commercial law, including insolvency, debt and property matters.
In addition to her experience in the above areas, Daye has specific expertise in crimes and human rights violations under international law.
Daye read with Rohan Lawrence and her senior mentor is Claire Harris QC.
Academic research
Daye is currently writing a PhD thesis on the topic of restorative justice for victims of sexual and family violence. Her research focuses on restorative justice programs and the experience of anti-rape advocates active during the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria in the 1970s and 1980s.
Human rights advocacy
Daye has an international practice in North Korean human rights and law. She has been involved with the Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights since 2016, where she has contributed to human rights submissions, reports, and associated advocacy.
Her work continues the work of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in pursuing accountability for the gravest human rights violations and international crimes.
Daye has appeared before the US Senate and EU Committees, and international organisations such as the UN on the effectiveness of sanctions and accountability for international crimes.
She founded a world-first resource by translating North Korea’s publicly available legislation into English and publishing a North Korean-English glossary – available at www.lawandnorthkorea.com.
