Soraya accepts briefs in most areas of law with a focus on administrative and regulatory matters, coronial inquests and inquiries, criminal law, human rights and professional discipline. She has 13 years’ experience as a legal practitioner.

Practice Areas

• Appellate
• Administrative and Regulatory
• Care and Protection
• Coronial Inquests and Inquiries
• Criminal Law
• Government
• Human Rights
• Mental Health Law
• Personal Injury
• Professional Discipline

Experience

Prior to being called to the Bar, Soraya was a Crown Prosecutor at the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions. She prosecuted serious and complex crime and appeared extensively as counsel in trials, appeals, proceeds of crime matters, fitness to plead hearings and sentencing hearings in the ACT Supreme Court.

Soraya also worked as a Senior Lawyer at Legal Aid ACT within the Criminal Practice. She appeared on behalf of young people and clients with complex mental impairment.

Education

Soraya graduated from the Australian National University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts (International Relations).

SELECT Recent Cases

• DPP v Rossiter (No 4) [2025] ACTSC 212.
• DPP v O’Brien (a pseudonym) (No 3) [2024] ACTSC 307.
• DPP v Sims [2024] ACTSC 49.
• DPP v Ware [2024] ACTSC 52.
• DPP v Hyde [2024] ACTSC 44.
• DPP v Sibley (No 2) [2024] ACTSC 45.
• DPP v Franklin (No 4) [2024] ACTSC 35.
• DPP v Mastalerz [2024] ACTSC 30.
• DPP v Hartas [2024] ACTSC 21.
• DPP v Reed [2023] ACTSC 310.

To inquire about Soraya’s availability to accept a brief, see contact details below.

Email – soraya@saikalskea.com.au

Phone – (02) 5135 6617

Mail – PO Box 4242 KINGSTON ACT 2604