Malcolm Cameron Lee is a former judge that served on the

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. He was based in

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, Western Australia. Lee was educated at the

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. He was admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1964, and began working as a barrister in 1969. He became

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in 1984. He was President of the Western Australian Bar Association from 1978 to 1981, and was a member of the Barristers Board of Western Australia from 1984. He was appointed a member of the

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in May 1987. He was a judge of the Industrial Relations Court of Australia. In 1998 Lee ruled in recognition of the

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of the Miriuwung and Gajerrong people of the east Kimberly, over land in Western Australia and the

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. In 2011 Lee returned to the bench to hear the Bell Group Appeal in Western Australia's Supreme Court of Appeal.

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