Ike Nwokolo represents people who face injury or loss through no fault of their own in wide ranging circumstances including slips or falls, accidents in schools, playgrounds and amusement venues, as well as domestic, diving and aviation accidents, food poisoning, dog attacks and assaults.
Ike graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1994 and began working at Slater & Gordon in the same year.
Expertise
- Public liability
- Product liability
Career history
- since 1994 Slater & Gordon (partner since 2004)
Professional qualifications & admissions
- 2009 Admitted High Court of Australia
- 1995 Admitted Supreme Court of Victoria
- 1994 Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne
Memberships & associations
- Law Institute of Victoria
- Australian Lawyer's Alliance
Cultural heritage
Ike’s father came to Australia from Nigeria in 1965 to undertake a PhD in Law at Melbourne University. When the Biafran war intervened in his home country in 1966, Ike’s father found himself unable to return to his homeland. He was granted refugee status in 1968 and subsequently became a tutor at Melbourne University and worked as a lawyer in New Guinea.
Ike was born in Australia and the family lived in Melbourne and New Guinea before Ike travelled to Nigeria when he was 11 years old. Ike lived with his family in Nigeria during his teens until he returned to New Guinea and then to Melbourne to undertake Bachelor of Laws at Melbourne University. As an undergraduate, Ike found he enjoyed living in multicultural Brunswick in Melbourne, and felt very much at home in the country where he had spent part of his childhood. Ike has always been passionate about social justice issues and so, after completing his law degree in 1993, he began his professional career with Slater & Gordon the following year, working on the Ok Tedi mining case, a class action on behalf of 40,000 disaffected landowners in New Guinea for environmental damage.
Ike is married with one daughter. His wife, also a lawyer, works for a community legal centre specialising in women’s legal issues. Ike recently joined the African Think Tank Inc. and is interested in advocacy and supporting refugees and new migrants.