Virginia Bell (judge)

Virginia Margaret Bell is a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest court in the State of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australian court hierarchy.

Education

Justice Bell was educated at SCEGGS Darlinghurst before attending the University of Sydney, where she graduated in law in 1976. [ [http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/supreme_court/ll_sc.nsf/pages/SCO_speech_bell_250399 Swearing In Ceremony of The Honourable Virginia Margaret Bell, SC as a Judge of the Supreme Court of NSW - Supreme Court : Lawlink NSW ] ]

Career

Bell was admitted as a solicitor of New South Wales in 1977. She was called to the bar in 1984, joining Frederick Jordan Chambers. Bell was appointed a public defender in 1986, returning to private practice in late 1989. She was one of the counsel assisting the Wood Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service between 1994 and 1997. Between 1982 and 1984 she was a member of the Board of Governors of the Law Foundation. In November 1997, she was appointed Senior Counsel.

Bell was sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 25 March 1999. She was appointed to the Court of Appeal of that court in early 2008.

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