Dominic Nguyen

Dominic’s principal areas of practice include Criminal Law, Domestic Violence Law and Regulatory Prosecutions.

He appears regularly in the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, District Court, Children’s Court of Queensland, Magistrates Court and various tribunals.

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.

Email Address: dominic@qldbar.asn.au

Phone: (07) 3161 3173 

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 holds 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 a Legal Officer at the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry.

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.

He is the Immediate Past President of the Queensland Branch of the Asian Australian Lawyers Association.