Terence Michael "Terry" Forrest is a justice of the Court of Appeal of the

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. Forrest was admitted to the legal profession in 1979 and was appointed

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in 1999. Forrest was appointed as a judge in the Trial Division of the Supreme Court in 2009. He was elevated to the Court of Appeal on 10 July 2018. His brother, Jack Forrest, is also a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. His father, James Herbert Forrest, was a County Court judge and Acting Chief Judge of that court.

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