Christopher Murray "Chris" Maxwell AC is an Australian jurist. He succeeded Justice John Winneke as President of the Victorian Court of Appeal on 16 July 2005.Maxwell was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne where he was resident at Trinity College. He played rugby and Australian rules football at Trinity, where he was the Senior Student in 1973. After graduating he was selected as Victorian Rhodes Scholar for 1975, completing a BPhil at Oxford. He was then called to the Bar as a member of Lincoln's Inn in 1978, practising briefly at the English Bar before returning to Melbourne in 1979. From 1983 he was variously reader for Kenneth Hayne QC, Principal Private Secretary to Gareth Evans (Commonwealth Attorney-General), and reader for Ross Robson QC. He signed the Victorian Bar Roll in 1984 and became a QC in 1998. Wikipedia
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