Vicki Scott is an experienced barrister with over 30 years of legal practice across criminal law, civil litigation, and youth advocacy. She holds PAL 3 accreditation, was appointed as a Youth Advocate in 2011, and regularly appears in jury trials, appeals, Proceeds of Crime proceedings, and complex civil matters including estate and commercial disputes.

She represents people from all walks of life—particularly those who never expected to find themselves in the court system. Her focus is protecting clients’ freedom, families, businesses, and reputations while minimising long-term impacts of court proceedings. She has extensive experience securing discharges without conviction, successful trial results and appeals, and outcomes that preserve employment, business interests and professional registrations.

Her early career as a Crown prosecutor, combined with later work as a defence barrister and her role supervising 36 lawyers as Duty Lawyer Supervisor at the Public Defence Service, provides Vicki with unique insight into both sides of the courtroom. This insight means better outcomes for clients.

Professionally, she served as Deputy Chair of the NZBA Criminal Law Committee (2011-2019), authoring Parliamentary submissions and appearing as an intervenor in Court of Appeal proceedings, and as Council Member of Waikato Bay of Plenty Law Society (2016-2017).

Her commitment to improving access to justice includes founding the “Kai and Kindness” programme at Youth Court, establishing Crimson Organic – a social enterprise addressing period poverty and its link to school attendance and youth justice involvement, serving as Senior Lawyer and Advisor at Baywide Community Law Centre, and chairing the Tauranga Moana Nightshelter Trust for eight years.