Member Profiles
Contact Details
Mark Johnson
William Forster Chambers26 Harry Chan Avenue
DARWIN NT 0801
GPO Box 4369
DARWIN NT 0801
Tel:
8982 4700
Fax:
8941 1541
Email:
mjohnson@williamforster.com
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson is a barrister with William Forster Chambers
Background
After some years working for the Australian Taxation Office (in Sydney, Parramatta & Canberra), Mark graduated in 1984 with an LL.B from NSWIT (now UTS). He then worked for some years for the NSW Legal Aid Commission as a solicitor, mainly in criminal law. In 1990, he went to the UK to work as a Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, working solely in criminal law. In 1995, he moved (back) to Australia and worked as a solicitor/advocate for the NSWLAC and the ODPP, before making a lifestyle move to the NT in early 2000. Since then, Mark has worked for NAALAS, the NTLAC (as criminal law counsel), the Coroner’s Office (as Deputy Coroner) and the Office of the DPP (as Crown Prosecutor). In October 2003, Mark joined the NTBA when he started work at the independent bar at Edmund Barton Chambers. He moved to William Forster Chambers early in 2005.
Mark has been involved as a committee member for the NSW Law Society, as a director (and treasurer) for Kamira Farm (a drug rehabilitation organisation), volunteer at Macquarie Legal Centre and DCLS, and as a tutor/lecturer at CDU, as past secretary/treasurer of the NTBA and as past president of the Criminal Lawyers Association of the NT (CLANT). He is admitted to practice in the NT, in NSW and in England & Wales.
Mark is married and has a daughter and two sons. His interests include golf, wood-working and walking with his dogs.
Areas of Law
Mark practices in trial and appellate work in the fields of criminal law, coronial law, admiralty law, family law and a variety of other civil law areas.