NT: Tippett becomes QC after rejection

AAP General News (Australia)
12-06-2001
NT: Tippett becomes QC after rejection

DARWIN, Dec 6 AAP - Darwin lawyer Jon (Jon) Tippett has become a Queens Counsel less
than a year after the former government in the Northern Territory rejected his nomination.

The new Labor government announced that Mr Tippett and Jack Karczewski had been made
QCs on the recommendation of the NT Chief Justice Brian Martin.

"These men have had a long and distinguished career in the territory and made a valuable
contribution to the legal profession," Attorney-General Peter Toyne said.

The former Country Liberal Party government refused to explain its decision to reject
the chief justice's recommendation on Mr Tippett who was replaced as NT Law Society president
this year.

But former deputy chief minister Mike Reed accused Mr Tippett of lying in his condemnation
of the now-defunct mandatory sentencing regime.

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