Allan Anforth AM, Barrister
Ph: (02) 6257 7047
Fax: (02) 6262 9656
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Areas of Interest:
My areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Administrative law
- Employment law
- Comcare
- Military Compensation
- Welfare and human rights law including social security, residential tenancy, refugee, discrimination and NDIS.
- Health law including Therapeutic Goods and Professional Standard Review matters.
I am available for retainer as a consultant in any of the above area.
Qualifications:
I have completed a Diploma of Laws (Solicitors Admission Board), Graduate Diploma of Public Law and a Masters of Law. I am a current member of the ACT Bar Association as well as a Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of ACT and the High court.
In addition to my legal training I hold a Bachelor and Masters degree in Science and am currently completing a PhD.
Positions Presently Held:
I am currently practicing as a Barrister in the ACT bar as well as nationally throughout Australia. In addition to this I hold the following positions:
- Member of Order of Australia
- Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Canberra
- Public Interest Monitor for the ACT
- Part time senior member of the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Part time Lecturer of Law, University of NSW (Administrative law and therapeutic goods)
- Honorary Ambassador of the ACT
- Justice of the Peace (NSW)
Public Positions Previous Held:
I have previously held the following positions:
- Part time member of the NSW Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal
- Part time member of NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Part time President of the ACT Consumer and Trader Tribunal
- Part time member of the ACT Residential Tenancies Tribunal
- Merits Reviewer under the Refugee Convention
- Part time member Veterans Review Board
- Part time member of the ACT Essential Services Consumer Council
- Part time member of the ACT Credit Tribunal
- Foundation member of Administrative Law Institute of Australia
- Part time member of the Commonwealth Administrative Appeals Tribunal
- Director ACT Council of Social Services
- Foundation member of the Conflict Resolution Service of ACT
- Chair and Deputy Chair of Agents Board of A.C.T.
- Part time member of the Drugs of Dependence Board of A.C.T.
- Member of Ministerial Advisory Committee for fixing costs in federal jurisdictions
- Chair person of People First Inc, an advocacy organisation for people with disabilities
- Member of Ministerial Consumer Affairs Advisory Committee of A.C.T.
- Part time lecturer in welfare law at Canberra TAFE
- Board member of Welfare Rights and Legal Centre
- Member of Ministerial Access to Justice Advisory Committee of A.C.T.
- Member of Ministerial Ethnic Aged Care Advisory Committee (ACT)
- Chair, Community Services & Health Industry Training and Advisory Board of ACT
- Member of Ministerial Mental Health Steering Committee of ACT
- Member of Ministerial National Drugs Strategy Shared Costs Advisory Committee
- Member of Ministerial Emergency Relief Advisory Committee
- Member Ministerial Drug and Alcohol Steering Committee of ACT
Publications:
I have published widely in the legal field including numerous papers in law journals. Below are links to textbooks that I have co-authored.
- Co-author “Social Security and Family Assistance Law” 4th ed 2014 Federation Press;
- Laws of Australia, Chapter 22.3 ‘Social Security’ Thomsonreuters
- Co-author “Annotated Commonwealth Employee Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988” 10th ed 2014 Federation Press (Comcare);
- Co-author “Residential Tenancies Law and Practice in NSW” 7th ed 2017 Federation Press;
- Co-author “Bush Law Handbook” Redfern Legal Centre Publishing
- A Guide to the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act
A Guide to the Military Rehabilitation (MRCA)
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