Lex Lasry
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The Honourable Justice Lex Lasry AM, QC |
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| Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria | |
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Assumed office 23 October 2007 |
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| Nominated by | John Brumby |
| Appointed by | David de Kretser |
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| Born |
8 July 1948 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | Monash University |
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Lex Lasry AM (born 8 July 1948) is a prominent Australian lawyer and a judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Lasry grew up in the small town of Healesville, Victoria. He attended Haileybury College and Monash University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1970, and a Bachelor of Laws in 1972.
Lasry completed his articles at the law firm Slater & Gordon, and read for the Victorian Bar under David Bennett QC. He was admitted to practise law in Victoria in 1973 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1990. Lasry has acted as a junior counsel before the Costigan royal commission, counsel with the National Crime Authority, and was the Royal Commissioner for the Inquiry into the Victorian Metropolitan Ambulance Service. Between 2003 and 2006 Lasry acted as senior counsel assisting the Coronial inquiry into the 2003 Canberra bushfires. Prior to his 2007 appointment to the bench, Lasry was entitled to practise law in the Australian jurisdictions of Victoria, New South Wales, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia.
The former chair of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association, in August 2004 Lasry was appointed as the independent observer representing the Law Council of Australia at the trial of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks. He attended Military Commission hearings at Guantanamo Bay in August 2004 and March 2007.
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