Dominic Nguyen
Stephen Zillman | Barrister | Brisbane
Dominic Nguyen holds a Juris Doctor from The University of Melbourne and was awarded a Melbourne BCL scholarship to read for the Bachelor of Civil Law at St Anne’s College, The University of Oxford. He also has a Bachelor of Physiotherapy from The University of Queensland and practised as a physiotherapist for a number of years before studying law.
Prior to being called to the Bar, Dominic was a solicitor at a number of top tier law firms and a solicitor advocate at a smaller general practice; he was also a legal officer at the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry.
Dominic’s principal areas of practice include criminal law, domestic violence law, regulatory prosecutions, coronial inquests and commissions of inquiry. He appears regularly in the Supreme Court, District Court, Magistrates Court and Children’s Court of Queensland. He has represented clients in appeals, jury trials, summary trials, sentences, pre-trial applications and bail applications. He is on the external counsel panel for Legal Aid’s complex criminal cases; the Queensland Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Commonwealth Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Dominic is a contributing author of ‘Indictable Offences Queensland’, published by Thomson Reuters and edited by Brendan Butler AM, SC (former Chief Magistrate of Queensland), Judge Gregory Lynham and Saul Holt QC. He was a sessional academic at The Australian National University from 2014 to 2018, teaching in the areas of advocacy, criminal law, ethics and civil litigation.
CONTACT
P. 07 3161 3173
E. dominic@qldbar.asn.au
L. Level 6 | Lilley Chambers
AREAS OF PRACTICE
Criminal
Domestic Violence Law
Regulatory Prosecutions
Coronial Inquests
Commissions of Inquiry
YEAR OF ADMISSION
2014