Edward Picton "Ted" Mullighan, QC

Queen's Counsel

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 (c. 1938 – 16 September 2011) was an Australian judge, who was Commissioner of the Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Government of South Australia

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Mullighan had practised law from 1962, was made Queen's Counsel

Queen's Counsel

Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...

 in 1978, and was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia

Supreme Court of South Australia

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 from 1989. He was a member of the Commonwealth Legal Aid

Legal aid

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Review Committee, President of the Law Society of South Australia, and co-chair of Reconciliation SA.

Mullighan died in Adelaide, aged 72.