Collection UQFL268 - Angelo Vasta Papers

Identity area

Reference code

UQFL268

Title

Angelo Vasta Papers

Date(s)

  • 1971-1990. (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

10 boxes.

Context area

Name of creator

(1941-)

Biographical history

Angelo Vasta was born in Innisfail in 1941. He graduated from Melbourne University in 1964, moved to Brisbane in 1967 where he was admitted to the Queensland Bar in 1968. He became a Queens Council at 38, Chief Crown prosecutor in 1981, and was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1984. He became the first superior court judge of an Italian background to be appointed in Queensland, and only the second one in Australia. He became embroiled in the Fitzgerald Inquiry after being mentioned in evidence of the disgraced Police Commisioner Terry Lewis. Angelo Vasta was sacked by Parliament in 1989 after a Commission of Inquiry set up by the then state government of Mike Ahern accused him of tax shams and unbecoming conduct.

Archival history

Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1971-1990.
Collection alternatively titled as: Angelo Vasta Collection.

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Content and structure area

Scope and content

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Box 1: Terry Lewis diaries nos. 21-39 ;
Box 2: Folder supplied by Inquiry about Bikie Bandits, transcripts of inquiry, and ledgers and records of Cosco Holdings ;
Box 3: Notes and accounts information regarding Cosco Holdings, newspaper cuttings ;
Box 4: Transcripts, draft statements, newspaper cuttings and documents concerning Bikie Bandits and Fitzgerald Inquiry ;
Box 5: Briefs, statements, addresses, and submissions ;
Box 6: Statements, correspondence with Inquiry, copies of briefs and advices, judges' evidence ;
Box 7: Transcripts of inquiry ;
Box 8: Newspaper cuttings, statements, accounts, transcripts, statutory declarations ;
Box 9: Transcripts, briefs, financial records ;
Box 10: Transcripts and briefs.

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Conditions governing access

Restricted access to all boxes.

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

  • English

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Alternative identifier(s)

Alma MMS ID

991005352479703131

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Status

Migrated

Level of detail

Dates of creation revision deletion

Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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