Mark Robinson
Australian Barrister

Mark Robinson is a barrister based in Sydney, Australia. He is engaged in trial and appellate advocacy and provides written opinions. He was first admitted as a barrister in December 1987. He practises in the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia and the New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory Courts and Tribunals. He has a General Practice and also practises in Administrative Law (Government Law) and in Commercial, Equity and Criminal jurisdictions.

Welcome to his World Wide Web site.

3rd Floor, Wentworth Chambers, 180 Phillip St, Sydney NSW 2000
Telephone: (02) 9221 5701, Fax: (02) 9223 3941, DX 392 Sydney,

Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

• author of New South Wales Administrative Law, a 2 volume looseleaf service (first published in November 1996) by Lawbook Co.
  
• Title Editor of the Laws Of Australia - Administrative Law Volumes published by Lawbook Co.
  
• A Director of Counsels Chambers Limited (providing accommodation, internet data and telephony services to about 600 barristers in Sydney). See the commemorative booklet for the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Wentworth Chambers held on 10 August 2007,
  
• a former Member (of about 20 years, until 2010) of the Administrative Law Committee of the Federal Litigation Section of the Law Council of Australia,
  
• a former part-time Judicial Member of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales (from 1999 to 2005) sitting in the General Division and the Appeal Panel hearing freedom of information and privacy matters. Decisions of the Tribunal are published Here and Here, and,
  
• a former Lecturer in undergraduate Administrative Law at the Faculties of Law of the University of Sydney (2002, 2003 and 2007) and the University of New South Wales (1993 to 1997).
  

Prior to full-time practice at the Bar, Mark worked :

• for 5 years as a Commercial Litigation Solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques in their Canberra and Sydney offices;
  
• for a year as the Legal Assistant to the Solicitor-General for New South Wales, Mr Keith Mason QC, later, Justice Mason, President of the NSW Court of Appeal;
  
• for 2 years as the Senior Legal Research Officer with the Justices of the High Court of Australia in Canberra; and,
  
• as a Consultant and Legal Officer at the NSW Law Reform Commission (Also at Austlii, here)
  

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Copyright © Mark Robinson 1996. Photograph by Murray Harris, 02 9906 8088, taken on 9 May 2007
on the occasion of the preparation of the the commemorative booklet for the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Wentworth Chambers held on 10 August 2007
Website first created by Mark Robinson & Colin Navin and was posted 20 May 1996.

Last updated 5 August 2010