Crown Solicitor of South Australia

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Crown Solicitor of South Australia
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Incumbent
Ingrid Norman
since November 2021
Attorney-General's Department
Inaugural holder Charles Mann
Formation1837
Website Attorney-General's Department (South Australia)

The Crown Solicitor of South Australia provides legal services to South Australian government Ministers, agencies and departments.

In the early days of the colony the titles of Advocate-General, Crown Solicitor and Public Prosecutor were bestowed together. That changed in 1850 due to the ill-health of then Advocate-General, William Smillie. As a consequence of Smillie's ill-health, the position of Crown Solicitor was given to Charles Mann. Mann briefly held the title of Acting Advocate-General before resigning that position in favour of Richard Hanson. Hanson became South Australia's last Advocate-General and the provinces first Attorney-General in the inaugural Parliament in 1857.

Since 1850, the position of Crown Solicitor has been a public sector employee. The current Crown Solicitor of South Australia, as of 8 November 2021, is Ingrid Norman.

List of Crown Solicitors of South Australia (1851 to 2021)

Crown SolicitorTime in Office
Charles Mann 183738
George Milner Stephen 1838
Robert Bernard183840
William Smillie184052
William Bartley (Acting)184950
Charles Mann 185056 [1]
William Alfred Wearing QC [2] 185667 [3]
William Bakewell 186770 [4]
Richard Bullock Andrews QC [5] [6] 187081 [7]
Charles Mann QC 188189 [8]
James Martin Stuart18891905 [9]
Charles James Dashwood KC [10] [11] 190516 [12]
Frederick William Richards KC [13] 191627 [14]
Albert James Hannan [15] [16] 192752 [17]
Reginald Roderick St Clair Chamberlain KC [18] [19] 195259 [20]
Joseph Reginald Kearnan QC [21] 195968
William Andrew Noye Wells QC [22] 196869
Ralph Meyrick Hague196970
Leslie Kenneth Gordon197076
Graham Clifton Prior QC [23] 197684
Catherine Margaret Branson QC 198489
Bradley Maxwell Selway QC [24] 198996
Michael Walter QC [25] 19962004
Simon Stretton SC [26] 200410
Gregory Parker201013
Michael Evans QC [27] 201516
Judith Hughes201617 [28]
Michael Wait SC [29] 201820
Laura Stein202021 [30]
Ingrid Norman2021

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  2. appointed Queen's Counsel 16 March 1865
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  10. appointed King's Counsel 18 July 1906
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  21. appointed Queen's Counsel 5 May 1960
  22. appointed Queen's Counsel 20 September 1962
  23. appointed Queen's Counsel 8 January 1978
  24. appointed Queen's Counsel 1 December 1994
  25. appointed Queen's Counsel 4 December 2003
  26. appointed Senior Counsel 26 October 2009
  27. appointed Queen's Counsel 17 January 2008
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  29. appointed Queen's Counsel 22 November 2016
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