Damian Bugg AM QC
CDPP Director 1999 - 2007
Chancellor of the University of Tasmania 2006 -
President of International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law 2003 –
Tas. DPP Director 1986 – 1999
Recipient of Centenary Medal 2003
Awarded Member of the Order of Australia in 2005 (AM).
Damian Bugg AM QC was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1969. He was a Senior Litigation Partner in the Hobart law firm Dobson Mitchell and Allport when he was appointed the first Director of Public Prosecutions for Tasmania in July 1986. He took silk in 1994.
Mr Bugg has been President of the Bar Association of Tasmania, Chairman of the Legal Assistance Scheme and a Member of the Council of the Law Society of Tasmania. He was a Member of the Council of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration for 9 years and is currently a Board Member of the Canadian based International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. He chaired the Electronic Recording Committee which implemented the program of video recorded Police interviews in Tasmania in 1987, and established and chaired the Forensic Science Services Committee in 1988. He has written and spoken about Victims Rights, Pretrial Disclosure, Committals and Procedural Reform.
In 1998 Mr Bugg was made a Fellow of the University of Tasmania and appointed Chancellor in 2006.
On 2 August 1999 Mr Bugg was appointed the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and held this position until 12 October 2007.