Michael Grant (judge)

Michael Patrick Grant AO (born 24 January 1963) is an Australian judge, who has been the Chief Justice of the Northern Territory since 2016.

Grant was born in Darwin in 1963, and educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill in Sydney.

He practised as a solicitor from 1993, while also working as a lecturer in torts and taxation law at Northern Territory University.

[1] In 1997, Grant worked as director of litigation in the office of the Attorney-General of the Northern Territory.

In 1999, he joined William Forster Chambers as a barrister, and was made Queen's Counsel in 2006.