Summary Profile
Mark is the author/editor of a number of published legal texts, including:
- Judicial Review: The Laws of Australia, published in 2014 by Thomson Reuters with an encyclopaedic coverage of judicial review Australia wide;
- NCAT – Practice and Procedure, 2nd edition published in 2020 by Thomson Reuters; and
- Administrative Law – The Laws of Australia, published in 2017 also published by Thomson Reuters. It relates to State and Federal tribunals and it also covers the Ombudsmen and freedom of information around Australia.
He argued the case in the High Court of Australia for the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, winning a leading constitutional law case in 2011.
Mark has also appeared in many unlawful imprisonment, domestic slavery, terrorism matters and prisoner’s rights cases.
He appears in a number of disciplinary cases for doctors and lawyers. He is also appearing in a number of cases for people who are opposed to the covid vaccinations rolled out in Australia, especially the children’s vaccine.
FOOTNOTES
a Attorney-General (United Kingdom) v Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty Ltd [1988] HCA 25; (1988) 165 CLR 30 (2 June 1988)
b Muin v Refugee Review Tribunal [2002] HCA 30; (2002) 190 ALR 601; (2002) 76 ALJR 966 (8 August 2002)
c Kang v Kwan & 2 Ors [2002] NSWSC 1187; Midya v Sagrani [1999] NSWCA 187; Sleiman v Commissioner of Corrective Services & Anor; Hamzy v Commissioner of Corrective Services & Anor [2009] NSWSC 304
d Wainohu v New South Wales [2011] HCA 24 (23 June 2011)
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)