Barrister & Solicitor
Notary Public
Managing Partner/Director
Dr Danial Kelly is the founder of Kelly and Partners Lawyers and Kelly Partners Indonesia. He is a lawyer, notary public and academic. He has appeared in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, Local Court, the Federal Court, the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, and various tribunals. Danial is also a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Notaries.
As a Notary Public appointed by the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory of Australia, Dr Kelly's notarial services are recognised world-wide. Dr Kelly has produced notarial services for countries in every continent of the world. He is fluent in Indonesian and can conduct all Indonesian language matters in-house.
For 10 years he was a law academic at Charles Darwin University where he taught comparative law and other subjects and published a number of articles in academic journals. Between 2014 and 2016 he was the Associate Head of the School of Law and then following a restructure he was the Assistant Dean of the College of Business & Law. He is now an international lecturer at Udayana University in Bali. Danial's PhD topic was on the nature and intersections of authority between law and religion for which he won the Pro Vice-Chancellor’s prize for doctoral excellence - most outstanding Doctor of Philosophy thesis. Danial has provided expert evidence to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory on matters of Aboriginal law and has published extensively in this area.
In 2021 he was instructed by United NT Businesses to represent the plaintiffs in Phillips & Ors v NT to challenge the mandatory COVID vaccination laws in the Northern Territory together with Julian Burnside AO QC.
Danial has been involved with Indonesia since 1993. He regularly collaborates on teaching and research projects with the law faculty of Universitas Udayana in Bali where he is an editor of the Udayana Journal of Law and Culture and teaches into the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In addition to legal services, Danial provides professional services in the areas of linguistics, education and policy.
Danial manages legal processes in Indonesia in collaboration with Indonesian lawyer associates of Kelly Partners. He is fluent in Indonesian and has a functional level of Balinese.
Email: danial.kelly@kellypartners.net
Mobile: 0420500073