After graduating her Bachelor of Laws from Monash University with First Class Honours, Daye left her Legal Associateship at the Family Court of Australia vowing never to engage in legal practice. She gained experience as a PhD candidate on restorative justice for sexual and family violence and as a North Korean human rights researcher before realising that her path led to the Bar. We’ve all made promises we haven’t kept. It seems to have worked out: in 2020, she won both the International Bar Association Outstanding Young Lawyer Award and Australia’s Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Award for Best Barrister. She is now living her dream as an administrative, criminal, and human rights lawyer with both domestic and international briefs.

Daye originally thought she would just write a blog on North Korean legislation, but soon saw that the greater public service would be to foster access to information in the English language. So she called up memories of translating picture books into Korean in Year 4, pushed her cat off her keyboard, and got to work.

Daye is based in Melbourne and now combines her work on North Korea with her practice at the Victorian Bar and her PhD candidature at Monash University.