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The Court was established by Letters Patent on 2 January 1837, five days after the colony was founded. The Court is unique among Australia's state supreme courts in that it was established at the foundation of the colony of South Australia, as the notion of a supreme court was a part of the colony's founder, Edward Wakefield's theory of colonisation. [3]
Of the judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia, [1] as of September 2018, 14 had previously served in the Parliament of South Australia Edward Gwynne, Sir Richard Hanson, Randolph Stow, Sir Samuel Way, Sir James Boucaut, Richard Andrews, Sir William Bundey, Sir John Gordon, Robert Homburg, Sir Angas Parsons, Sir Charles Abbott, Leo Travers, Len King and Robin Millhouse.
Aboriginal Sentencing Court; Coroner's Court of South Australia; District Court of South Australia; Environment, Resources and Development Court; Licensing Court of South Australia; Magistrates Court of South Australia; Supreme Court of South Australia; South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal; South Australian Employment Court
Chief justices of South Australia (10 P) Pages in category "Judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
Robyn Ann Layton AO KC is an Australian lawyer, who worked in a diverse range of legal roles, including as a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia and judge of the South Australian Industrial Court. She was author of the South Australian Child Protection review known as "the Layton report" in 2003, and a member and then chair of the ...
Venning v Chin (1974) 10 SASR 299 is a Supreme Court of South Australia full court judgment, by which it was decided that in trespass cases, the onus lies on the defendant to disprove fault. However, for injuries caused in highway accidents, the onus is on the plaintiff to prove fault on the part of the defendant (see Tort Law in Australia).
John Jeremy Doyle, AC KC (born 4 January 1945), Australian jurist, was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia, between 1995 and 2012.
Richard Conway White, KC (born 6 January 1952) was appointed as a judge on 6 May 2004 to the Supreme Court of South Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of South Australia. [1] White received an LL.B. from the University of Adelaide. He gained admission to the bar in 1976, and was made Queen's Counsel in 1997. [1]