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 2025)

Crown SolicitorTime in Office
Charles Mann 1837–38
George Milner Stephen 1838
Robert Bernard1838–40
William Smillie1840–52
William Bartley (Acting)1849–50
Charles Mann 1850–56 [1]
William Alfred Wearing QC [2] 1856–67 [3]
William Bakewell 1867–70 [4]
Richard Bullock Andrews QC [5] [6] 1870–81 [7]
Charles Mann QC 1881–89 [8]
James Martin Stuart1889–1905 [9]
Charles James Dashwood KC [10] [11] 1905–16 [12]
Frederick William Richards KC [13] 1916–27 [14]
Albert James Hannan [15] [16] 1927–52 [17]
Reginald Roderick St Clair Chamberlain KC [18] [19] 1952–59 [20]
Joseph Reginald Kearnan QC [21] 1959–68
William Andrew Noye Wells QC [22] 1968–69
Ralph Meyrick Hague1969–70
Leslie Kenneth Gordon1970–76
Graham Clifton Prior QC [23] 1976–84
Catherine Margaret Branson QC 1984–89
Bradley Maxwell Selway QC [24] 1989–96
Michael Walter QC [25] 1996–2004
Simon Stretton SC [26] 2004–10
Gregory Parker2010–13
Michael Evans QC [27] 2015–16
Judith Hughes2016–17 [28]
Michael Wait SC [29] 2018–20
Laura Stein2020–21 [30]
Ingrid Norman2021–2024
Lucinda Byers2024–

References

  1. ↑ In 1851, the Office of Crown Solicitor was severed from that of Advocate-General. 'THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE' South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) 18 Jul 1851: 3 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38449569
  2. ↑ appointed Queen's Counsel 16 March 1865
  3. ↑ 'THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE' South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) 11 Apr 1856: 3 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49753208
  4. ↑ 'THE MONTHS NEWS' South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) 9 Aug 1867: 2 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39188731
  5. ↑ appointed Queen's Counsel 16 March 1865
  6. ↑ 'Andrews, Richard Bullock (1823 - 1884)', Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume ?, MUP, 1967, pp ??-??. Retrieved on 3 September 2015
  7. ↑ 'GOVERNMENT GAZETTE' The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889) 21 Jan 1870: 3 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article28588503
  8. ↑ 'Latest News' Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912) 18 Mar 1881: 2 Edition: SECOND EDITION http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197752712
  9. ↑ 'THE NEW CROWN SOLICITOR' The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) 15 Aug 1889: 5 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24482422
  10. ↑ appointed King's Counsel 18 July 1906
  11. ↑ 'Dahswood, Charles James (1842 - 1919)', Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume ?, MUP, 1967, pp ??-??. Retrieved on 3 September 2015
  12. ↑ 'PERSONAL' The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) 5 Jul 1905: 6 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4938274
  13. ↑ appointed King's Counsel 8 September 1921
  14. ↑ 'CROWN LAW APPOINTMENT' Daily Herald (Adelaide, SA : 1910 - 1924) 1 Aug 1916: 4 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article105360150
  15. ↑ appointed King's Counsel 15 January 1935
  16. ↑ 'Hannan, Albert James (1887 - 1965)', Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume ?, MUP, 1967, pp ??-??. Retrieved on 3 September 2015
  17. ↑ 'CROWN LAW OFFICE' News (Adelaide, SA : 1923 - 1954) 28 Apr 1927: 1 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129246812
  18. ↑ appointed King's Counsel 8 May 1947
  19. ↑ 'Chamberlain, Sir Reginald Roderick St Clair (1901 - 1990)', Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume ?, MUP, 1967, pp ??-??. Retrieved on 3 September 2015
  20. ↑ 'New Crown Solicitor' The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954) 25 Jul 1952: 3 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47401900
  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
  28. ↑ John Rau (4 July 2017). "Full-time SACAT President appointed" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  29. ↑ appointed Queen's Counsel 22 November 2016
  30. ↑ "Experienced lawyer appointed as SA's new Crown Solicitor | Premier of South Australia". www.premier.sa.gov.au. Archived from the original on 2 July 2020.
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