Shane Lethlean

Practice

Shane takes briefs in family law parenting & property matters, and is generally involved as retained counsel from first return through to final hearing or early resolution. 

Shane's emphasis throughout is to resolve proceedings so that the clients can reestablish their lives away from and without costly and challenging litigation.  

Mediations in Family & Relationship Law and Intra-familial matters

Shane holds mediations in parenting and property matters, interpersonal & familial disputes, probate claims, and complex issues involving trauma & PTSD.

First Admitted to Practice: 5 November 1996 (NT)

Shane studied Law in the Northern Territory prior to working as a Judge's Associate in the NT Supreme Court in 1995.

Since being called to the Bar in 1998, Shane practises exclusively in family and relationship law as counsel or mediator. 

Professional Allied Interests

• Chair, New Barristers' Committee of the Victorian Bar in 2022 & 2023
• Member of the Family Law Bar Association
• Australian Institute of Family Law Mediators and Arbitrators (AIFLAM)
• Chair, Owners Corporation Committee (440 apartment complex)

Personal History

• Born: January 1969
• Secondary education: Year 12 - 1986
• Tertiary education:

Monash University (1987 to 1991)
BA (Latin Literature, Politics & Philosophy)
Grad.Dip.Fam.Law

Charles Darwin University (1992 to 1994)
LLB

Interests and Past-times

• Golf
• Fitness 
• Motorcycling
• Philosophy, creeds, belief systems & indigenous culture
• Gardening
• Woodwork & furniture-making
• Aviation
• Rural and coastal Australia
• Travelling
• Music

Prior work history

• Retail (1987 to 1989 - P/T).
• Private hospital surgical theatres (1990 to 1994 - P/T):
  Theatre Technician in orthopaedic, gynaecological, dental, cosmetic & reconstructive, ophthalmological, and IVF procedures/surgery.
• Forensic Pathology (1993 to 1994 - P/T):
  Royal Darwin Hospital: student observer and assistant in the autopsy/postmortems.
• Supreme Court of the Northern Territory (1995 - F/T)
  Judge's Associate