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Trevor John Riley (born 29 January 1948) was the Chief Justice of the
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in
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. He was appointed a
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of the
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on 1 February 1999, Chief Justice on 27 September 2010 and retired on 4 July 2016. Justice Riley was born in
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in
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and was educated at the Merredin Senior High School and the
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. After graduating with a
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, he was admitted to practice in 1970. He relocated to Darwin in 1974. He worked with Ian Barker in the firm Withnall & Barker until 1974 when
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destroyed Darwin. After the cyclone he joined the firm
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. Justice Riley joined the Northern Territory Bar in 1985 and was appointed as a
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in 1988. From 1988 - 1991 he was counsel in the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. On 22 July 2010 it was announced that Justice Riley would become the Northern Territory's sixth Chief Justice after the retirement of
Brian Ross Martin Brian Ross Martin (born 2 September 1947) is an Australian jurist. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia before being appointed Chief Justice of the Northern Territory, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Terri ...
.New Northern Territory Chief Justice appointed
Justice Riley retired in 2016.


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  1948 births Living people Chief justices of the Northern Territory Judges of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory 20th-century Australian judges 21st-century Australian judges Officers of the Order of Australia Australian King's Counsel University of Western Australia alumni People from Darwin, Northern Territory People from Bruce Rock, Western Australia {{Australia-law-bio-stub