Joshua Jones

Josh is an experienced trial and appellate counsel. He has been at the Queensland Bar for over 12 years and was previously a solicitor. He has extensive litigation experience in all levels of courts and tribunals in Queensland.  He has received briefs to appear in Queensland (city, regional and rural), New South Wales (city, regional and rural), Tasmania, Western Australia and Nauru.

In 2022, he was appointed counsel assisting the Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing in Qld. In 2023, he was appointed counsel assisting the Board of Inquiry into the Criminal Justice System in the Australian Capital Territory.  

He has appeared and advised with many leading senior counsel at the Queensland Bar, and some senior counsel at the New South Wales Bar and the Victorian Bar. He has also appeared many times leading more junior counsel than himself. He has appeared and jointly advised with a former Solicitor-General of Queensland.

He is regularly briefed by top, middle and boutique solicitor firms. He is also briefed by government and regulatory bodies for advice and appearance work.

He has appeared before and sat on sporting tribunals associated with football (soccer), touch football and rugby union. He has also conducted an investigation for a sporting body.

His areas of interest include:

• Criminal defence: Commonwealth and State Criminal Codes; Corporations Act offences, work health and safety; mining safety; environmental; food safety; fisheries; white collar crime / commercial crime / general civil penalty proceedings and investigations by regulators such as ASIC, the Health Ombudsman and AHPRA

• Judicial review

• Occupational discipline: medical doctors; legal practitioners; athletes

• Commissions, Inquests, investigations and Interviews: royal commissions; commissions of inquiry; coronial inquests; Crime and Corruption Commission hearings; Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission; regulatory interviews; Australian Securities & Investments Commission interviews, general investigations for sporting bodies

• Appellate: District Court, Industrial Court of Queensland, Court of Appeal and High Court