Matt Jackson
Areas of Practice
Criminal Law
Appellate - criminal
Public/Administrative Law
Civil & Human Rights/Discriminations
Inquests/Commissions of Inquiry/Statutory Tribunals
Education and Admissions
2014
Bachelor of Laws (Public Law major) / Bachelor of International Relations (Business) (Bond)
2015
L.L.M. (Research) (QUT) Thesis Title: Gladue, Bugmy and ‘Special Treatment’ – Reconciling a Proposal for Sentencing Law Reform in Queensland with s.10 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) [expected completion in 2018]
2016
Admitted as a Solicitor, Supreme Court of Queensland
2017
Admitted as a Solicitor, High Court of Australia
2018
Admitted as a Barrister, Supreme Court of Queensland
Practice History
2012 - 2014
Law Clerk, Nyst Legal – recipient of Nyst Legal Indigenous Corporate Scholarship
2015
Associate to his Honour Judge Long SC, District Court of Queensland
2016 - 2018
Solicitor, Nyst Legal
Notable Cases
R v Kay; ex parte Attorney-General [2016] QCA 269; [2017] 2 Qd R 522 (instructing solicitor, counsel A Boe and P Morreau)
Irwin v The Queen [2018] HCA 8 (instructing solicitor, counsel S Holt QC)
Other Professional / Academic Contributions
2015 - 2017
Volunteer Lawyer, Griffith University Innocence Project
2016
Guest Lecturer, Bond University, Criminal Law and Procedure
2017
Author, Submission (no 62) to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into incarceration rate of Indigenous Australians – cited at [6.100] and [6.103] in the ‘Pathways to Justice – An Inquiry into the Incarceration Rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’, Final Report (Report 133, 28 March 2018)
Professional Memberships
Bar Association of Queensland
Law and Justice Institute Queensland
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
Contact
P 07 3511 7169
M 0416 205 387
F 07 3369 7098
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