Stephen Lawrence is an Australian barrister and Labor Party politician who is currently serving as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
He also co-hosts Australian legal podcast "The Wigs", with Jim Minns, Emmanuel Kerkysharian and Felicity Graham.
He has specialised in transitional justice, having been a public defender in the Solomon Islands as part of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and an Australia Government Justice Advisor in Afghanistan where he assisted in the trials of Taliban detainees.
[2] He was involved in a range of high profile cases as a barrister including Alexander v Minister for Home Affairs [2022] HCA 19 in which the High Court struck down federal citizenship stripping laws and Raul Bassi v Commissioner of Police (NSW) [2020] NSWCA 109 in which the NSW Court of Appeal authorised a large Black Lives Matter protest minutes before it was due to commence.
Lawrence first joined the Labor Party at the age of eighteen and is a member of the United Services Union.