Benjamin Dighton

Contact

Areas of Practice

Public and Administrative Law
Inquests
Commissions of Inquiry
Statutory Tribunals
Appellate
Criminal
Child Protection

Professional Memberships

Bar Association of Queensland
Queensland Law Society Children’s Law Committee
Law and Justice Institute Queensland
Child Protection Practitioners Association of Queensland

Qualifications, Appointments and Admissions

Bachelor of Laws, University of Queensland
Master of Laws, University of Queensland
Admitted as a Legal Practitioner, Supreme Court of Queensland
Admitted as a Barrister, Supreme Court of Queensland

Professional History

Lawyer, Piper Alderman
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
2010 – Present: Barrister-at-law
2010 – 2015: Law Tutor, University of Queensland
2016 – 2017: Appointed Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children in the Northern Territory

Further acted for corporate and government parties in the Financial Services Royal Commission, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, as well as other state inquiries.

Contributing author to Indictable Offences in Queensland (Thomson Reuters)