School of Law and Business

Law staff

External lecturers

Justice Dean Mildren QC
Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, Justice Mildren has taught a number of units at Charles Darwin University's Law School. He regularly teaches legal history with a specific interest in Northern Territory legal history. He also publishes regularly on the topic.

Rex Wild QC
LLB (Melbourne), LLM (Monash), barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. Formerly Director of Public Prosecutions Northern Territory. He regularly teaches the skills unit, Advocacy.

Dr John Lowndes
Magistrate of the Local Court of the Northern Territory (Jurisdiction equivalent to NSW District Court or Victorian County Court). Dr. Lowndes has recently completed a PhD at Charles Darwin University.

Robyn Davis
LLB, BA, Post Grad Dip Asian Studies, Post Grad Dip Asian Law. Admitted to practice law in Victoria in 1987. Signed the Bar Roll in Victoria in 1991. Presently, Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and High Court of Australia. Employed in private practice. Predominantly works in the areas of family law and migration law.

Cameron Ford
LLB, presently partner and in-house counsel of Cridlands Lawyers but in March 2007 will move to the independent Bar; solicitor of the Supreme Court of Qld, barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and the High Court of Australia. He is also editor-in-chief of the Northern Territory Law Reports, executive editor of the Northern Territory Law Journal, Territory editor of the Australian Insurance Law Bulletin and the text Family Provision in Australia, 3rd ed by de Groot and Nickel. Cameron teaches civil procedure, evidence and contemporary legal issues and is studying towards a Master of Laws at Melbourne University.

Angeline Lewis
LLB(Hons) (ANU), BA(Hons) (UNSW), Grad Dip Military Law, Grad Dip Asian Studies (Arabic), GDLP (ANU), Legal practitioner ACT and NT Supreme Courts. Angeline is presently a Legal Officer in the Australian Defence Force (Deputy Fleet Legal Officer - North Australia), and lectures in international law at CDU in her private capacity. She is also undertaking doctoral research in the field at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.

Patrick McIntyre
Certificate of Law, South Australia, accredited mediator, barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia, barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, barrister and solicitor of the High Court of Australia.

Bill Parish
Bill Parish was a practitioner of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory for thirty years specialising in commercial law, financing, corporations law and conveyancing. Bill has been a visiting lecturer and tutor at CDU for three years in the subjects of Equity, Trusts, Succession Law and Vendor and Purchaser.

Craig Smyth
B.Sc (Hons), G.Cert Comp, LL.B (Hons). Craig is admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, and a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of Australia. He is presently employed as a law officer with the Solicitor for the Northern Territory at the Department of Justice. He graduated in law from the Northern Territory University with first class honours receiving the Attorney General's Medal and University Medal. Craig has been lecturing legal process, research and writing for the last three years and has formerly been a tutor.

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