Matt Jackson
Contact
- mjackson@8pt.com.au
- 07 3369 8011
- 0416 205 387
- 07 3369 7098
Areas of Practice
- Criminal Law
- Appellate – criminal
- Regulatory Law
- Public/Administrative Law
- Civil & Human Rights/Discriminations
- Inquests
- Commissions of Inquiry
- Statutory Tribunals
Expertise
Matt was called to the Bar in 2018.
He has established a busy practice, appearing primarily in criminal law but also in regulatory, disciplinary, and inquest proceedings.
In 2023, Matt was appointed to the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council and became the author of the Queensland Sentencing Manual in 2024.
Matt was listed as a recommended junior counsel in the 2024 Doyles Guide.
Qualifications, Appointments and Admissions
- 2014 Bachelor of Laws (Public Law major) / Bachelor of International Relations (Business) (Bond)
- 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
- 2020 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)
Selected Publications and Presentations
2024
Legalwise seminar June 2024, ‘Criminal Trial Strategy: Committals in Focus’, presenting with Emma Higgins, Director of Robertson O’Gorman
North Queensland Law Association 2024 Conference, The Art and Science of Persuasion, presenting with Saul Holt KC
2021
Gold Coast District Law Association 2021 Conference, presentation on R v Baxter [2021] QSC 70, with Crowley QC (as his Honour then was)
2020
Legal Wise seminar, September 2020, ‘The Impact of Existing Parole on Sentencing: The Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 Untangled’
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)
Notable Cases
R v Ngakyunkwokka (2023) 14 QR 295 (led by SC Holt KC; speaking role)
Athwal v State of Queensland [2023] QCA 156 (led by R Merkel KC, with Katharine Brown; appeal allowed)
R v Misi; Ex parte Attorney-General (Qld) [2023] QCA 34 (resisted the appeal; led by MJ Copley KC (as his Honour then was) )
R v Woosup [2022] QCA 270 (conviction appeal allowed; unled)
R v Turner [2022] QCA 175 (sentence appeal dismissed; notable unreported decision; unled)
R v Walker [2022] QCA 54 (sentence appeal dismissed; unled)
R v Taufao [2022] QCA 30 (conviction appeal dismissed; unled)
SQH v Scott [2022] QSC 16 (2022); 10 QR 215; (2022) 296 A Crim R 1 (led by SC Holt KC; speaking role)
Allwood v Attorney-General (2021) 7 QR 346 (unled)
Davidson v The Queen [2021] HCA Trans 4 (special leave refused after a Full Court referral; led by MJ McCarthy)
R v Spreadborough [2020] QCA 291 (conviction appeal dismissed; notable unreported decision; unled)
R v HBZ [2020] HCA Trans 187 (special leave refused at an oral hearing: appearing for the applicant; led by SC Holt KC)
GBF v The Queen [2020] 94 ALJR 1037 (appeal allowed; led by SC Holt KC)
Malaguti v Orchard [2020] QDC 242 (Matt appeared at first instance on behalf of the National Regulator and was led on appeal by LK Crowley QC (as his Honour then was) )
Maher v The Commissioner of Police [2020] QDC 45 (unled; appeal allowed)
Magill v The Commissioner of Police [2020] QDC 8 (unled; appeal dismissed)
R v Baxter [2019] HCA 234 (special leave refused at an oral hearing: appearing for the respondent; led by LK Crowley QC (as his Honour then was) )
MCO v The Queen [2019] HCA Trans 73 (special leave refused at an oral hearing: appearing for the applicant; led by PJ Callaghan SC (as his Honour then was) )
R v Mahony [2019] QCA 131 (led by SC Holt KC)