Mrs Margaret Voight

Background

Margaret Voight currently holds the position of the Bar Practice Course Warden and Lecturer Legal Practice Course at the Queensland University of Technology.

Margaret holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree, Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and Master of Laws (QUT). She is currently undertaking a professional doctorate (Doctor of Juridical Science) at the QUT. Her doctorate research entails the identification of best practices for ascertaining children’s views in litigated family law matters with a focus on the role of Independent Children’s Lawyers and Judicial Officers.

Margaret is admitted as a legal practitioner (Supreme Court of Queensland and High Court of Australia) and her professional experience includes work in private practice (general practice, family law and criminal law), the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and at Legal Aid Queensland (family law, advice lawyer and chairperson family law conferences). She is a volunteer legal practitioner at the Caxton community legal centre and has assisted in providing support in the QUT’s mentor program.  Prior to admission, Margaret worked at the Forde Commission of Inquiry into Child abuse in Government Institutions and Detention Centres, as a legal cadet in the State DPP, managed a small business and was a police officer.

Margaret is committed to community service and education and is a member of various organisations such as: Women Lawyers Association of Queensland (which provides assistance guidance and support to young women in practice); the Family Law Practitioner’s Association of Queensland; Lawyers Beyond Borders, Law Council of Australia (Family Law Section) and the Fortitude Valley Rotary Club. 

Awards

In 1999, Margaret was invited to join the Golden Key International Honours Society in recognition of scholastic achievement and excellence in her (law) study. She later won the Fox & Thomas Prize at the QUT Legal Practice Unit for the highest GPA entering the Legal Practice Course. In 2008, Margaret was awarded the Inaugural Dianne Smith Family Law Practitioner’s Association Postgraduate Research Scholarship for her Doctorate Research in Family Law.