Damian Bugg
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Damian Bugg AM, QC |
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| Chancellor of the University of Tasmania | |
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In office 1 January 2006 – 31 December 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Michael Vertigan |
| Succeeded by | Michael Field |
| Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions | |
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In office 2 August 1999 – 12 October 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Brian Ross Martin |
| Succeeded by | Christopher Craigie |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Tasmania |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Jenny Bugg |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Tasmania |
| Occupation | Barrister |
Damian John Bugg, AM, QC, a barrister, is a former Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions who served between 1999 and 2007. Prior to this appointment, he was the Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions from July 1986 to 1999. In 2005, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the law. He served as Chancellor of the University of Tasmania between 2006 and 2012.
Bugg was born in Tasmania and attended school and university in Hobart at the University of Tasmania, where he resided at St. John Fisher College, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws in 1969. He was called to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1969 and worked for the Hobart law firm Dobson, Mitchell and Allport from 1970 to 1976 as a lawyer specialising in commercial law and litigation, and as senior litigation partner from 1977 until 1986 when he was appointed as the first Director of Public Prosecutions for Tasmania. He took silk in 1994.
Bugg has served as President of the Bar Association of Tasmania, Chairman of the Legal Assistance Scheme and a Member of the Council of the Law Society of Tasmania. He was a Member of the Council of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration for nine years and is currently a Board Member of the Canadian-based International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. He chaired the Electronic Recording Committee which implemented the program of video recorded Police interviews in Tasmania in 1987, and established and chaired the Forensic Science Services Committee in 1988, has written and spoken about Victims Rights, Pretrial Disclosure, Committals and Procedural Reform.
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