Year and Place of First Admission

1984, New South Wales

Jurisdictions

High Court, Federal Courts and Tribunals, New South Wales, Northern Territory, England and Wales

Degrees

LL.B

Areas of Law

Criminal Law, Administrative and Public Law, Appeals, Commercial Law, De Facto Relationships Disputes, Engineering and Construction Law, Family Law, Health Law, Human Rights, Injunctions, Inquiries, Land Rights and Native Title, Licensing.

Career

After some years working for the Australian Taxation Office (in Sydney, Parramatta & Canberra), Mark graduated in 1984 with an LL.B from NSWIT (now UTS). He then worked for some years for the NSW Legal Aid Commission as a solicitor, mainly in criminal law. In 1990, he went to the UK to work as a Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, working solely in criminal law. In 1995, he moved (back) to Australia and worked as a solicitor/advocate for the NSWLAC and the ODPP, before making a lifestyle move to the NT in early 2000. Since then, Mark has worked for NAALAS, the NTLAC (as criminal law counsel), the Coroner’s Office (as Deputy Coroner) and the Office of the DPP (as Crown Prosecutor). In October 2003, Mark joined the NTBA when he started work at the independent bar at Edmund Barton Chambers.  He moved to William Forster Chambers early in 2005.

Mark has been involved as a committee member for the NSW Law Society, as a director (and treasurer) for Kamira Farm (a drug rehabilitation organisation in NSW), volunteer at Macquarie Legal Centre and DCLS, and as a tutor/lecturer at CDU, as past secretary/treasurer of the NTBA and as past president of the Criminal Lawyers Association of the NT (CLANT). He is a member of the NT Legal Practitioners Tribunal.  He is admitted to practice in the NT, in NSW and in England & Wales.

Mark is married and has a daughter and two sons. His interests include golf, wood-working and walking with his dogs.

Major cases include

• Alimudin & Nurdin v R [2008]
• Flowers v R [2005]
• Wade v R [2004]
• Holt v Comcare [2007]

Contact details

Mark Johnson
William Forster Chambers
26 Harry Chan Avenue
Darwin NT 0800

PO Box 4369
DARWIN NT 0801

Tel: 08 8982 4700
Mob: 0416 291 917
Fax: 08 8941 1541
Email: mjohnson@williamforster.com