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Bernard Daniel Bongiorno AO is an Australian professor who is a former Court of Appeal justice at the Supreme Court of Victoria in Australia. He was formerly a justice of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court, where he served between 2000 and 2009. Prior to that he served as the Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions. [1]

He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2010 Australia Day Honours "For service to the law, particularly as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and through leadership roles within the Italian community". [2] As of 2013, Bongiorno worked at Melbourne Law School as a "judge-in-residence." [3]

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References

  1. "Victorian justices elevated to court of appeal" . Retrieved 4 October 2013.
  2. "BONGIORNO, Bernard Daniel". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  3. Orr-Thomson, Camilla (7 June 2013). "The judge resides at uni". The Age. Retrieved 20 May 2015.