Joshua Ingrames
Year and Place of Admission
2009, Northern Territory, Solicitor
2016, NT Independent Bar
Qualifications
Bachelor of Laws (CDU), Graduate Diploma Legal Practice (CDU)
Advanced Mediation (AMDRAS)
Areas of Practice
Administrative and Public Law, Appeals, Crime Victims Assistance, Domestic Violence, Estates, Health Law, Inquiries, Licensing, Limitations, Mediation, Negligence, Professional Services, Residential Building Disputes, Residential Tenancy Disputes, Statutory Interpretation, Tort Law.
Career
Josh is a Territory local and was called to the bar and joined William Forster Chambers in July 2016, having worked as a solicitor-advocate from 2010 with the Litigation Division of the Solicitor for the Northern Territory. Josh served as the Associate to the Honorable Justice Trevor Riley in 2009, and worked with the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency during 2008 as a graduate clerk.
Josh accepts briefs to provide advice or appear in in all levels of Territory and Federal courts and tribunals. As well as his litigation practice, Josh provides mediation services in both the community, workplace and litigation sectors. He provides accredited mediation training under the AMDRAS standards, and lectures in dispute resolution for Charles Darwin University. Josh has worked extensively with first nations mediators in both central and top end communities and assisted with the resolution of a range of matters (including burial and Indigenous estate distribution disputes, and restorative processes within coronial inquests).
Josh holds appointment as a legal member in the Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal (for the Mental Health Review Tribunal) and has held appointments as Chair of Teacher Registration Board Inquiry Committees, a Delegate of the Commissioner of Residential Tenancies and Commissioner for Residential Building Disputes, and as Chair of a Local Government Disciplinary Committee.
Decided Cases (select)
Motor Accidents (Compensation) Commission v Motor Accidents Insurance Board [2025] HCADisp 36 (led by Perry Herzfeld SC) – no grant of special leave to appeal from NTCA
Law Society Northern Territory v D Story [2025] 2023-03204-SC
McDonald v Commonwealth of Australia [2025] FCA 380 (led by Fiona McLeod SC & Zoe Maud SC) – court approval of Northern Territory historic wages class action settlement
Munupi Wilderness Lodge Pty Ltd v Executive Director of Township Leasing [2024] NTSC 36 – interactions of Business Tenancies (Fair Dealings) Act and ALRA
Titan Plant Hire Pty Ltd v Work Health Authority (No 2) [2024] NTSC 8 (led by Duncan McConnel SC) – costs of appeal, awarded, fit for two counsel
Cigobia v Greyhound Australia Pty Ltd & Anor [2024] NTSC 70 (led by Alan Lindsay SC) – judicial review of medical panel decision, majority decision considerations
Motor Accidents Insurance Board v Motor Accidents (Compensation) Commission [2024] NTCA 5 (led by Simon Fitzpatrick SC) – successful appeal of part of indemnity
Titan Plant Hire Pty Ltd v Work Health Authority [2023] NTSC 88 (led by Duncan McConnel SC) – appeal on grounds of manifestly excessive sentence, dismissed
Njanjma Aboriginal Corporation v National Indigenous Australians Agency [2023] NTCAT 21 – substitution of Commonwealth as proper defendant and dismissal of proceeding, NTCAT has no jurisdiction under ALRA
Motor Accidents (Compensation) Commission v Motor Accidents Insurance Board (No 2) [2023] NTSC 71 (led by Alan Lindsay SC) – claim for statutory interest, awarded
Motor Accidents (Compensation) Commission v Motor Accidents Insurance Board [2023] NTSC 40 (led by Alan Lindsay SC) – claim against indemnifying insurer for negligent driving of insured, finding of negligence, damages awarded
Carnesi v Commissioner of Police [2022] NTLC 008 – appeal of Commissioner’s decision to refuse firearms license without reason, ss 10(8A) & (8B) Firearms Act
Arnott v Beams & Anor [2022] NTSC 25 – explanation of Police DVO process
Work Health Authority v Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd (NT Local Court, unreported, 5 May 2021, Deputy Chief Judge Fong Lim) (costs) (led by Duncan McConnel SC) – application for costs on strike out, dismissed
Whittens Pty Ltd v Fong Lim & Anor [2021] NTSC 9 (led by Duncan McConnel SC) – appeal against dismissal of strike out application, dismissed
Carnesi v Commissioner of Police [2021] NTCAT 17 – police criminal intelligence, limitations on evidence
Barnes v Commonwealth of Australia & Anor [2021] NTSC 30 – strike out of statement of claim, historic abuse
Law Society Northern Territory v G Clift [2020] LPDT 1
Work Health Authority v Whittens Pty Ltd & Kawasaki Heavey Industries Ltd [2020] NTLC 012 (led by Duncan McConnel SC) – applications to strike out charges
In the Estate of Cutting [2019] NTSC 94 – curial advice to executors
Cutting v Public Trustee for the Northern Territory (No 2) [2018] NTSC 51 – need for family provision agreements to have court approval
James Tiedeman v Adam Champion [2018] NTLC 014 – work health, definition of worker
O’Shea v Northern Territory [2018] NTSC 73 – application for punitive damages, refused
Ezekiel Shannon v Northern Territory of Australia (NT Local Court, unreported, 24 November 2018, Judge Bamber) – police assault and battery, dismissed
Isles v NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services [2018] FWCFB 6295 – application for leave to appeal from decision to uphold dismissal from employment, dismissed
Armstrong v Northern Territory Pastoral Land Board [2017] NTCAT 188 – challenge to Pastoral board decision for land clearing
Johnson v Northern Territory of Australia [2016] NTSC 49 (led by Sonia Brownhill SC) – police assault and battery, dismissed
Johnson v Northern Territory of Australia [2015] NTSC 15 – Costs – Full Court case stated
Inquest into the Death of Angus Jimija Dixon [2015] NTMC 24 – coronial inquest, institutional response
Bowden v An Assessor under s24 of the Victims of Crime Assistance Act & Anor [2015] NTCAT 5 – early NTCAT determination of CVSU claim, considering stare decisis between NTCAT and the Local Court
Rosabelle Simon v Northern Territory of Australia [2014] NTMC 6 – CVSU appeal
Cooper v Teacher Registration Board & Anor [2012] NTMC 4 – appeal from decision of the TRB following inquiry committee
Contact Details
William Forster Chambers
26 Harry Chan Avenue
Darwin NT 0800
PO Box 4369
DARWIN NT 0801
Tel: (08) 8982 4700
Email: jingrames@williamforster.com
