Terence Michael "Terry" Forrest is a justice of the Court of Appeal of the

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. Forrest was admitted to the legal profession in 1979 and was appointed

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in 1999. He was appointed as a judge in the Trial Division of the Supreme Court in 2009 and elevated to the Court of Appeal on 10 July 2018. Forrest's brother

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is also a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Their father, James Herbert Forrest, was a County Court and acting Supreme Court chief justice.

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