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Justice Peter Heerey was appointed President of the Defence Force Discipline Appeal Tribunal on 8 September 2000. His Honour has been a judge of the Federal Court of Australia since 1990.

After graduating from the University of Tasmania with degrees in Law (First Class Honours) and Arts his Honour practised for four years as a solicitor and then as a barrister at the Victorian Bar from 1967. In 1985 his Honour was appointed Queen's Counsel.

His Honour is Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Graduate Program in Intellectual Property at the University of Melbourne.

His Honour served in 18 National Service Training Battalion and the Royal Australian Army Service Corps (CMF).

Papers

The Role of the Commander in Military Criminal Procedure
Presentation to the 6th Budapest International Military Law Conference
on 14-17 June 2003