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Chris Maxwell BA(Hons), LLB (Melbourne), BPhil ( Oxford } is an Australian jurist. The Old Quad Building, formerly Old Law The University of Melbourne, located in Melbourne, Victoria, is the second oldest university in Australia, and the oldest in Victoria. ...
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Maxwell has been President of the Victorian Court of Appeal since 16 July 2005, succeeding Justice John Winneke.
Maxwell was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1975 and was then called to the Bar as a member of Lincoln’s Inn in 1978, practicing briefly at the English Bar before returning to Melbourne in 1979. From 1983 he was variously reader for Kenneth Hayne QC, Principal Private Secretary to Gareth Evans (Commonwealth Attorney-General), and reader for Ross Robson QC. He signed the Victorian Bar Roll in 1984 and became a QC in 1998. Rhodes House in Oxford Rhodes Scholarships were created by Cecil John Rhodes. ...
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Maxwell was the Victorian Legal Aid Commissioner for seven years and also a member of the Board of Liberty Victoria for six years, two of them as President.
He appeared with Julian Burnside QC in the Tampa refugee case, and was then famously but unsuccessfully countersued (as a Board member of Liberty Victoria) by the Commonwealth of Australian for costs. Julian Burnside is a prominant Australian QC. Made famous for: Defending Alan Bond Interrogating John Laws and Alan Jones as counsel assisting the Australian Broadcasting Authoritys cash-for- comment inquiry Helping the Maritime Union of Australia defeat Patrick Stevedores in the High Court Defending Ok Tedi natives against BHP...
Maxwell is married with two children.
External links
- http://www.vicbar.com.au/pdf/134Welcomes.pdf
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