Rob Gray Email & Phone Number

I am a Barrister at the Victorian bar specialising in the following areas: - Family Law - Domestic & Family Violence Law - Child Welfare & Protection Law - Criminal LawI am on Holmes List. Before coming to the bar, I was most recently a Senior Legal advisor to the NT Attorney-General. Prior to that appointment, I was the Deputy Managing Lawyer at the North Australian Aboriginal Family Legal Service (NAAFLS) engaged in providing legal services to remote Aboriginal communities of the NT. Before I relocated to the Northern Territory in 2018, I operated my own boutique family and criminal law firm, Gray & Jackson Lawyers in Ballarat. Throughout my career, I have practiced primarily in the area of Family Law and was accredited as a Family Law Specialist by the Law Institute of Victoria in 2009. I have also practiced extensively in the Family Division of the Children's Court of Victoria. In 2011, Dr Sharon Gilroy (then Chief Clinician at the Children’s Court of Victoria) and I co-authored a paper on the interaction between the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Australian laws as they affect children and young people at a State and Federal level. Although perpetually suspended in its 327th publication draft [approximately ;-)], presentations of the paper were well received at professional conferences in Noosa, Qld and Tuscany, Italy.In terms of community involvement, I was President of the Ballarat and District Law Association from 2013-2015 and a member of the executive for several preceding years. I am also a former Chairman and a director of 99.9 Voice FM (Ballarat Community Radio) from 2011-2016.I am also a director and primary legal advisor to the Faith, Hope & Love Children's Foundation Australia Inc which is a non-profit organization working to fund projects and infrastructure in developing countries to alleviate the effects of extreme poverty upon children.

Listed skills include Family Law Accredited Specialist, Litigation, Legal Advice, Intellectual Property, and 19 others.

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  The University Of Queensland

  Law And Literature