Geoffrey Michael Giudice (16 December 1947 – 18 November 2021) was a Judge of the

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from 1997 to 2012 and the president of

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from 2009 to 2012. Giudice studied at Xavier College, Melbourne before taking up Law at the

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, graduating in 1970. He spent nine years working in industry, before beginning to practise as a solicitor in 1979. He was admitted to the

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in Victoria in 1984. As a barrister, he specialised in industrial relations and employment law. He was appointed a judge of the Federal Court of Australia on 17 September 1997. At the same time, he became the president of the

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. In 2009, when the Commission was replaced by the newly established

, Giudice was appointed its first president. He retired from this position in February 2012, and was succeeded by former Victorian Supreme Court judge, now Federal Court judge Iain Ross.

Death

In 2020, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He died on 18 November 2021, aged 73.

References

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