Rory Pettit

Admitted as a legal practitioner in 2011
Admitted as a barrister in 2020

Principal areas of practice

  • Criminal law
  • Children’s criminal law
  • Appellate law
  • Commissions of inquiry and inquest
 
Professional background

  • Trial advocate, Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Ltd—Newcastle
  • Trial advocate, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency—Darwin
  • Committal solicitor, Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Ltd—Sydney
  • Solicitor, private criminal practice—Sydney
 
Academic

  • Bachelor of Law (Hons)—Sydney University
  • Bachelor of Arts (Hons)—Sydney University (Walter Reid Memorial prize for academic achievement)
 
Cases

  • R v Dale Donnelly (NSW District Court, Norton J, 19 December 2019)—exclusion of unlawfully obtained evidence (appeared as trial advocate)
 
  • Hall v Rigby [2018] NTCA 12—appeal asserting unsafe and unsatisfactory conviction (appeared as lead counsel)
 
  • R v Collins (No 2) [2017] NTSC 12—exclusion of unfairly prejudicial evidence from trial (appeared as lead counsel)
 
  • Lantjin v Phipps [2017] NTSC 39—successful appeal against sentence establishing legal error at first instance (appeared as lead counsel)
 
  • Andreou v Martin [2016] NTMC 006—exclusion from hearing of identification evidence (appeared as solicitor advocate)
 
  • TS v Constable Courtney James [2014] NSWSC 984—appeal establishing applicability of Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) to forensic procedure applications (appeared at first instance, assisted on appeal)
 
Papers and publications

  • ‘Can Police Search Mobile Phones Without a Warrant?’, presented at the Criminal Lawyers Association of the NT 17th biennial conference on 29 June 2019.
   
For further details or enquiries regarding Rory Pettit’s areas of expertise, fees and terms of engagement please contact his Clerk.


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