Tina Jowett SC

Tina Jowett is a leading native title junior counsel in trials, appeals and advice work. With 20 years’ experience as a barrister, Tina is ranked as a pre-eminent junior counsel in Doyle’s Guide and as a leading junior counsel in the Chambers and Partners rankings.

Tina has appeared in more native title trials as junior counsel than any other junior counsel in Australia, including Blackburn v Wagonga Local Aboriginal Land Council (2021) 287 FCR 1; Mace v State of Queensland and Darkinjung v Attorney General of New South Wales (2019) 274 FCR 41; and Bodney v Bennell (2008) 167 FCR 84. She has appeared or has advised most Australian Native Title Representative Bodies, government parties and mining proponents, and has been briefed to appear in all States and Territories. Tina regularly appears before the Full Federal Court and the High Court.

Tina’s expertise in native title issues is demonstrated as the General Editor of Australia’s only native title quarterly publication: LexisNexis’s Native Title News. She also regularly presents at Legalwise seminars and trains practitioners at the annual Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies legal workshop.

In 2009, Tina was recognised by the NSW Women’s Lawyers’ Association as their ‘Woman Lawyer Advocate of the Year’. She was a member of the NSW Equal Opportunity Tribunal from 1993 to 2003.