Angelo Vasta QC (8 January 1941 – 29 September 2021) was an Australian Queen's Counsel and judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland (1984 to 1989).
He maintained a successful private practice at the Queensland Bar before retiring on 1 July 2020.
[1][2][3] On 24 October 1988, Vasta either stood down or was stood down as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland after evidence of his friendship with the suspended Queensland Police Commissioner Terence Lewis was given at the Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption which contradicted statements made under oath during a defamation case in 1986, amongst other behaviours.
[5][6] In 2017, Robbie Katter MP introduced a private member's bill to declare Vasta's removal from office invalid and have it reversed but the bill was subsequently rejected by a parliamentary committee.
[9] Since 1 January 2015, another son, Salvatore "Sal" Vasta, has been a judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia[10] with significant controversy surrounding several of his cases.