Barrister Pardeep Singh Tiwana has become the first Indian to be appointed as a judge of the County Court of Victoria (Australia).
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Earlier, Jalandhar’s Palbinder Kaur Shergill had become the first Sikh turbaned baptised woman to be appointed as a Supreme Court Judge of Canada in 2017.
He did his barrister study from the bar school of Lincoln’s Inn and was the youngest applicant to get a law degree as a barrister.
Tiwana has two scholarships from bar school and applied in 1993 as a 23-year-old youth. He practiced till 2006 there, before moving toAustralia.
After doing a 3-month law course from Melbourne university, he started practicing there as a criminal lawyer in 2006.
