Rohan Foon
Director
Rohan graduated from the University of Tasmania with a combined Bachelor of Economics and Law with First Class Honours in Law in 2004.
In 2005, he completed a Graduate Certificate of Legal Practice and was admitted as a practitioner of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. Upon his admission, he spent a year as Associate to the Honourable Justice Crawford of the Supreme Court of Tasmania.
Rohan has been a practitioner at Douglas & Collins since August 2006 and became a Director of the firm in January 2013. He practices in Litigation and advises in many areas of the law, including general commercial disputes and estate litigation.
He has been a member of the Council of the Law Society of Tasmania (“LST”) since 2010. He is a former President, Vice President and Treasurer of the LST and was a member of the Executive of the LST from 2013 to 2019.
In addition, Rohan is currently:
- A Director of the Law Council of Australia (“LCA”)
- A member of the Disciplinary Tribunal for the Tasmanian Legal Profession;
- A Criminal Injuries Compensation Commissioner;
- A member of the Board of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute;
- A member of the Finance and Risk Committee of the LCA
- Member of the Solicitors Accounts Rules Committee for the LST
- Member of the Board of Encore Theatre Company;
Rohan has also previously been President of Law Foundation, Deputy Chairman of the Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board (2013-2015), a member of the Northern Tasmania Football Association Tribunal (2006-2012), a Member of the Northern Tasmania Football Association Appeals Tribunal, Chairman of the Launceston Touch Football Association (“LTA”) Tribunal and member of the LTA Committee (2007 to 2022), and a former committee member of the Tamar Churinga Hockey Club.