Member Profiles
Contact Details
Rex Wild QC
Myilly Point Chambers6 Burnett Place
DARWIN NT 0800
PO Box 1467
DARWIN NT 0801
Tel:
08 8941 1712
Fax:
08 8981 6837
Email:
rex.wild@hotmail.com
Rex Wild QC
Rex Wild QC is a barrister with Myilly Point Chambers in Darwin, Northern Territory.
Background
Rex obtained his LLM from Monash University in 1977. Rex was first admitted as a solicitor in Victoria on 1 May 1968 after completing his LLB in Melbourne. He became a barrister in Victoria in September 1973 and the Northern Territory in October 1992. He took silk in Victoria in 1991 and in the NT in 1996.
Rex worked as a solicitor from 1968-1973 and barrister from 1973-1993 primarily as a “common lawyer”. He became Assistant Director of the Office of Public Prosecutions in the Territory in 1993. In 1995 Rex took up the post of Senior Counsel with the Attorney General’s Department, before becoming Director of the Office of Public Prosecutions. He retired as DPP in January 2006.
Rex is a member of the Lord’s Taverners and lists Vets. cricket, golf, teaching advocacy and significant historical legal trials as his interests.
Area of Law
Rex’s area of practice is nowadays primarily criminal law.