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The Honourable Justice Peter Heery

His Honour is a graduate in Law (First Class Honours) and Arts of the University of Tasmania.

After four years as a solicitor his Honour commenced practice at the Victorian Bar in 1967.  He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1985 and a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia in 1990.

His Honour is the Convenor of the Intellectual Property Panel of the Victoria District Registry of the Court and Chair of the Advisory Board for the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Melbourne.

His Honour has published papers in Australian and overseas professional and academic journals in the areas of corporations law, defamation, expert evidence, intellectual property, law and literature and Federation history.

His Honour has been Judge in Residence at Samford University, Birmingham Alabama (1993), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (1996-97), University College Dublin (2001) and the University of Tasmania (2005).

In 2000 his Honour was appointed President of the Australian Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal, in 2003 a Deputy President of the Australian Competition Tribunal and in 2005 a Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal..

His Honour is Deputy President of the Arts Law Centre of Australia.