Lex Lasry

Who is Lex Lasry?

Lex Lasry QC is a prominent Australian lawyer and a judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria, in the Australian state of Victoria.

Lasry graduated from Monash University in Melbourne. He was admitted to practise law in Victoria in 1973 and was appointed Queens Counsel in 1990.

Lasry is the former chair of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association. In August 2004 he 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.

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

Lasry has acted as defence counsel in several high-profile criminal cases in Australia and overseas. He 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. The conviction was overturned on appeal.