Brian Walters

Brian Walters AM SC (born 17 June 1954) is a Melbourne barrister, writer and advocate for human rights and the environment.

In 2006-7 Walters led the legal team that took the case of Stefan Nystrom to the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

[2] It ruled that, even though Nystrom was a Swedish citizen, Australia was his "own country" under international human rights law.

[5] In 2015–2016 Walters led the legal team that successfully argued in the Federal Court that the Tasmanian government could not open four wheel drive tracks through the Western Tasmanian Aboriginal Cultural Landscape (the Tarkine Tracks case).

[6] In 2016–2017 Walters led the legal team that successfully challenged a series of decisions by the Andrews Victorian government to hold children in an adult prison (the "Barwon case").

Walters, addressing a full courtroom in Melbourne , 2019