Ted Mullighan

For American baseballer, see Eddie Mulligan.

Edward Picton "Ted" Mullighan, QC (25 March 1939 – 16 September 2011) was an Australian judge, who was Commissioner of the Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry[1] appointed by the Government of South Australia.[2]

Mullighan had practised law from 1962, was made Queen's Counsel in 1978,[3] and was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1989. He was a member of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Review Committee, President of the Law Society of South Australia, and co-chair of Reconciliation SA.

Mullighan died in Adelaide, aged 72.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Commission of Inquiry (Children in State Care and Children on APY Lands) Act 2004
  2. ↑ Commission of Inquiry into Children in State Care, National Link-Up News, 5 April 2005
  3. ↑ Elliott, Jack (2000). Memoirs of a Barrister. Adelaide: Wakefield Press. ISBN 1-86254-522-7.
  4. ↑ Former South Australian Supreme Court judge Ted Mullighan dies, The Australian, 16 September 2011.