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- ↑ "Senior Crown Prosecutor Appointed Chief Judge of County Court".
- ↑ "Judicial College of Victoria Board".
- ↑ "Board of the Judicial Commission of Victoria".
- ↑ "George Pell jailed for 'breathtakingly arrogant' abuse of two choirboys". ABC News. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
- ↑ https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6826839/High-Court-of-Australia-Pell-v-The-Queen.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
- 1 2 3 "Welcome - His Honour Chief Judge Peter Kidd".
- ↑ "Peter Kidd SC appointed Chief Judge of the County Court of Victoria".
- ↑ "Law Institute of Victoria: New Kidd on the block".