Lonsdale Chambers

Profile

Garry Bigmore was articled to the Deputy Commonwealth Crown Solicitor, admitted in 1973, joined a small CBD firm in 1976, spent the eighties as a solicitor in sole practice and merged with J. M. Smith & Emmerton in 1990.

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Appointed Queen's Counsel in 1994 (the first solicitor to be so appointed since the establishment of the Victorian Bar) and called to the Bar in March 1998. ​ 

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Founding member of the Insolvency & Reconstruction Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia. ​ Reviewing Editor (from inception to 2020) of LexisNexis' Bankruptcy Law & Practice​ 

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Inaugural Chairman of Young's List. 

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Listed in Doyle's Guide as a Leading Insolvency & Restructuring barrister. ​ 

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Victorian Bar Committee memberships 

• Innovation & Technology Committee (Former Chair) 

• Commercial Bar Association - Insolvency Law Section (Former Chair) ​ 

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Admitted to the Legal Profession:  

03 Dec 1973 ​ 

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Signed Victorian Bar Roll: 

02 Mar 1998 ​ 

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Appointed Silk: 

29 Nov 1994 ​ 

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Qualifications: 

LL.B ​ (Melbourne)

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Also entitled to practise in: 

• High Court of Australia 

• Federal Court of Australia 

• Federal Circuit Court of Australia 

• New South Wales 

• Queensland 

• South Australia

• Tasmania 

• Western Australia 

• Australian Capital Territory 

• Northern Territory

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