Northern Territory

Flying solo (but as part of a national firm)

Victoria Bell has worked in Darwin for almost four years, following a move from Adelaide. What might appear to be a...

28 January 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

‘It’s nice to give back to the legal community’

Maria Savvas has just completed a three-year tenure as president of the Law Society of the Northern Territory – a...

11 January 2021

By Jerome Doraisamy

Parliamentary privilege called into question by NT Law Society

The Northern Territory Law Society has unsuccessfully alleged that a barrister’s advice to prominent members of...

16 December 2020

By Naomi Neilson

Lawyering in Darwin: A post-pandemic dream?

For those wanting to work remotely, or get among a legal market just as diverse as anywhere else in Australia, life in...

24 November 2020

By Jerome Doraisamy

‘Over 2 years and still limited progress for young Indigenous Australians’

Two years on from the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory and...

21 August 2020

By Tony Zhang

Open letter calls for Climate Change Act in NT

An open letter has called for the Northern Territory to create a “legally binding pathway” with the Climate Change...

14 August 2020

By Naomi Neilson

Solicitor-General appointed to NT Supreme Court

Solicitor-General Sonia Brownhill has been appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory,...

25 May 2020

By Jerome Doraisamy

NT justice close to ‘overloading’ as bush courts ‘grind to a halt’

With bush courts suspended as a result of coronavirus travel restrictions to remote communities, NT legal groups...

29 April 2020

By Tony Zhang

Attempts to turn NT into cashless card trial site must be abandoned

It would be “irresponsible” and “potentially deadly” for any attempt by the Morrison government to turn the...

27 March 2020

By Tony Zhang

NT legal system ‘source of shame’, to receive updates in 2020

The new president for the Law Council of Australia has pointed to many issues in the legal system, and particularly...

17 February 2020

By Naomi Neilson