20 Facts About Lex Lasry

Lex Lasry was born on 8 July 1948 and is an Australian lawyer and a retired judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria from 2007 to 2018.

Lex Lasry sat as a reserve judge from 2018 until his retirement as a reserve judge in February 2024.

Lex Lasry attended Healesville Primary School, Haileybury College and Monash University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Jurisprudence in 1970, and a Bachelor of Laws in 1972.

Lex Lasry was admitted to practise law in Victoria in 1973 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1990.

Lex 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.

From 2003 and 2006, Lex Lasry acted as senior counsel assisting the Coronial inquiry into the 2003 Canberra bushfires.

Lex Lasry attended Military Commission hearings at Guantanamo Bay in August 2004 and March 2007.

Lex Lasry acted on behalf of Joseph Thomas in a high-profile Australian terror trial in which Thomas was convicted of receiving funds from a terrorist organisation and for passport offences.

Lex Lasry represented Van Tuong Nguyen in the high-profile case in which he was convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore in 2002 and executed in December 2005.

At about that time Lex Lasry took up the case of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, two of the nine Australians convicted of drug trafficking in Indonesia, known as the Bali Nine.

Lex Lasry was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 23 October 2007.

Lex Lasry is a member of the Council of the International Criminal Bar for counsel practising before the International Court of Justice.

Lex Lasry chaired appellate hearings for the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport and for V8 Supercar racing, and has a motor racing licence.

Lex Lasry retired in June 2018 but continued hearing cases as a reserve judge until February 2024.

In February 2024, Lex Lasry quit the judiciary in response to a complaint lodged by the Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions.

Lex Lasry rejected the complaint, but stated he could no longer preside over cases involving the DPP and he would therefore resign.

On 1 January 2025, Lex Lasry was appointed as an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.

In 2007 Lex Lasry was awarded the Law Council of Australia's inaugural Presidents Medal for his pro bono representation of Van Nguyen in 2005, and for his outstanding work as Independent Legal Observer for Hicks in 2004 and 2005.

Lex Lasry is a longtime supporter of the St Kilda Football Club and, in 2011, was appointed to serve a three-year term on the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Law at Monash University.

Lex Lasry plays in his own rock band, The Lex Pistols, and he has raced Porsche cars for many years.