Ted Mullighan

Edward Picton "Ted" Mullighan, QC (c. 1938 – 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 1862545227. 
4. ^ Former South Australian Supreme Court judge Ted Mullighan dies, The Australian, 16 September 2011.

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Name	Mullighan, Ted
Alternative names	Mullighan, Edward Picton (full name)
Short description
Date of birth	c. 1938
Place of birth
Date of death	16 September 2011
Place of death	Adelaide, South Australia