Yasmin Swifte

Yasmin Swifte was admitted to practice in 1996 and has extensive experience in family law and criminal law.

Yasmin has significant experience in a wide variety of Family Law matters including Divorce, Children’s work, Property settlement, De Facto Relationships, relocation, Family Provision and related criminal law matters such as Apprehended Violence Orders.

Yasmin is an experienced advocate, having previously worked as a criminal prosecutor with the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions for ten years. Yasmin has instructed in numerous major jury trials in serious criminal matters such as tax evasion, white collar fraud, corporate fraud and drug importations. Yasmin has also conducted numerous defended hearings, committals, bail applications, sentences and appeals herself.

Yasmin has a special interest in evidentiary issues in addition to a large amount of in-court experience with complex litigation.

Yasmin has appeared as advocate in the Local Court, District Court, Supreme Court, Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court.

Yasmin is also an experienced negotiator and always seeks to achieve the best possible outcome for her clients.

Yasmin offers her clients the ability to professionally and efficiently analyse the evidence in each individual case to achieve the best possible outcomes for her clients.

Yasmin appreciates that every case is different and works with her clients to tailor strategies to manage litigation in a way that will reduce stress, costs and delay whilst maximizing the end results.

Yasmin was educated at Radford College in Canberra. She graduated with combined Arts (Honours) and Law degrees from the University of Sydney in 1994. Yasmin has subsequently graduated from the University of Sydney with a Master of Arts degree majoring in English literature with a thesis entitled “Charles Dickens and the Role of Legal Institutions in Social and Moral Reform: Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend and Bleak House” in addition to a Master of Laws degree majoring in criminological and evidentiary subjects.

Yasmin is a regular contributor to the Law Society Journal of New South Wales and enjoys judging the Law Society’s annual Mock Trial competition.

Yasmin has recently appeared in the SBS documentary titled Dead Tired directed by Paul Scott. In Episode 2 called “Planet Insomnia”, Yasmin provides legal commentary on the criminal defence of non-insane automatism in sleepwalking cases. The episode is available on the SBS website at www.sbs.com.au.