| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Richard Michael Niall | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | SC |
| Office: | Judge of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria |
| Term Start: | 28 November 2017 |
| Occupation: | Judge, lawyer |
| Education: | Monash University |
| Birth Place: | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Nationality: | Australian |
Richard Michael Niall is an Australian jurist and a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2017.[1]
Niall graduated with a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws with honours from the Monash University Faculty of Law in 1989. In 1995, he commenced practice as a barrister at the Victorian Bar, where he specialised in public law, revenue law, discrimination, employment and industrial law and human rights law.[2] He was appointed senior counsel in 2010. In 2015, he was appointed Solicitor-General of Victoria. He was a member of the legal team that advised the Victorian Labor government on the cancellation of the controversial East West Link project.[3] Niall was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2017.
Niall is the nephew of academic, biographer and literary critic Brenda Niall AO FAHA.