Peter Donald Blaxell is a retired justice of the

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. He was appointed to the Supreme Court bench on 2 February 2005 and retired on 25 February 2011. Before his appointment as a Supreme Court justice, Blaxell was a judge of the District Court of Western Australia for 14 years, having joined that court in February 1991. From December 2012 to January 2016, he was the chair of the

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. He is the brother of

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. At the

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, Blaxell was the

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's candidate for the

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. He was also the Liberal Party's candidate for the 1988 Ascot state by-election.

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