Lex Lasry

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lex Lasry QC is a prominent Australian lawyer.

Lasry graduated from Haileybury College then Monash University in Melbourne. He was admitted to practice law in Victoria in 1973 and was appointed Queens Counsel in 1990. ^[1]

Lasry is chair of the Victorian Criminal Bar Association. He was appointed as the independent observer representing the Law Council of Australian at the trial of Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks. ^[2]

Since 2003 Lasry has 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 (see R v Thomas) in which Thomas was convicted of receiving funds from a terrorist organisation and for passport offenses. The conviction was overturned on appeal. Lasry represented Van Tuong Nguyen in the high profile case in which Van Nguyen was convicted of drug trafficing in Singapore in 2004 and executed in December 2005. Recently Lasry has taken up the case of two of the Australians convicted of drug trafficing in Indonesia, known as the "Bali nine". ^[3]

Lasry is entitled to practice law in the Australian jurisdictions of Victoria, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia. ^[4] He is also a member of the Council of the International Criminal Bar for counsel practicing before the International Court of Justice. ^[5] Lasry has chambers in Melbourne, Sydney, and Canberra.