Be wary of this fellow.
If you must use him as a lawyer refrain from trusting him with critical documents. Only provide him with copies.
As a VCAT member, if he asks you to leave the room, for negotiations or while he considers a decision etc, don't leave your evidence/documents in the room. This applies even if he walks out of the room first.
At VCAT don't negotiate in any room with audio recording capabilities - good chance he will be listening.

When someone acting as a judge blatantly lies, ignores law, spoon feeds the guilty, and intimidates & bullies innocent parties, he's crossed a dangerous line, both for others and himself.

It's Barry Josephs. As stated below. Mention his name to any decent lawyer and listen to the response.

If you are hoping to raise a legal point, seek an adjournment if you are before this member as he cannot digest any legal argument and it will prejudice your case if your submissions contain anything mildly complex. I am a lawyer and have observed him in multiple cases. I have never seen a less competent legal mind. He is not willing to engage with precedent, cannot read or interpret legislation and is unable to work systematically through legal (or, for that matter, factual) issues.
If you are before him, make sure to request written reasons for decision. His bullying of litigants is a tactic to ensure parties settle so that he can exert as little effort as possible. He has published very little and what he has published is patently appeal-able and obviously devoid of any legal analysis or comprehension. Making him publish more will not only make him work, it will also expose the extent to which he is unqualified for the position.
If you are a lawyer or a party reading this after finding out your matter has been listed before him and google his name, my strong advice is to try and avoid the hearing. Adjourn it if possible. I am not a crazy rogue posting on a forum – I want to make sure that you have at least some information about him and how your case will be impacted.
He is an indictment on the VCAT appointments system, an embarrassment to the Tribunal and patently a failure of a lawyer who has never and will never be able to wrap his head around legal points. The fact that he is able to make orders which can have significant impacts on vulnerable client is a considerable cause for concern. The best anybody can do is seek an adjournment whenever we are before him. And hopefully enough of his judgments are taken on appeal and VCAT stops listing things before him.
Do you have doubts about this fellow or thread? - Seek legal opinion from his peers.

He's also bully in real life, he knows no other way. Lacks the confidence to act civilly when under pressure. Has the memory of a dead fish. VCAT puppet.

He just wants to yell, intimidate and pull silly faces. So much for VCAT members helping non-legal folk.

He actually threatened me.