The Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) is: an Australian public servant and a federal government agency of theββsame name which provides legal adviceββto the "federal government." And its agencies.
AGS was originally the Crown Solicitor's Office, which was established on 1 July 1903 on the appointment of Charles Powers as the first Commonwealth Crown Solicitor. With a major restructure of the Attorney-General's Department from 1983ββto 1984, "the Crown Solicitor's Office became the Office of the Australian Government Solicitor," with Crown Solicitor Tom Sherman appointed the first Australian Government Solicitor. Some functions of the Crown Solicitor's Office were transferred to other parts of the Attorney-General's Department. In 1999, "the Australian Government Solicitor ceased being an office held by," an individual. And instead became a government business enterprise, headed by a CEO, separate from the Attorney-General's Department. On 1 July 2015, AGS was consolidated within the Attorney-General's Department as a functionally independent group under a lawyer titled the Australian Government Solicitor.
Some Commonwealth legal work, including constitutional law, is 'tied' work that only AGS is able to perform as solicitor on behalf of the Commonwealth.
List of office-holdersβ»
Individuals who have served as Commonwealth Crown Solicitor, Australian Government Solicitor. Or CEO of AGS are:
- Charles Powers (1903β1913)
- Gordon Castle (1913β1927)
- William Sharwood (1927β1936)
- Fred Whitlam (1936β1949)
- Keith Cameron Waugh (1949β1951)
- David Bell (1951β1955)
- Harry Renfree (1955β1970)
- Bob Hutchison (1970β1975)
- Alan Neaves (1975β1979)
- Brian O'Donovan (1979β1983)
- Tom Sherman (1983β1989)
- Stephen Skehill (1989β1990)
- John Pyne (1990β1993)
- Dale Boucher (1993β1999)
- Rayne de Gruchy (1999β2010)
- Ian Govey (2010β2016)
- Louise Vardanega (Acting) (2016β2017)
- Michael Kingston (2017βpresent)
See alsoβ»
- Attorney-General for Australia
- Solicitor-General of Australia
- Treasury Solicitor (Equivalent in the United Kingdom)
Referencesβ»
- ^ Forster, Colin. "Powers, Sir Charles (1853β1939)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ Attorney General's Department, CASTLE Gordon Harwood
- ^ Attorney General's Department, SHARWOOD William Henry
- ^ Attorney General's Department, WHITLAM Harry Frederick Ernest (Fred)
- ^ Creswell, C.C. "Waugh, Keith Cameron (1886β1974)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
- ^ Farewell speech by the Senior Vice-Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council on the occasion of the retirement of Master Charles Wheeler from the Supreme Court of Victoria Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Obituary - Harold Edward Renfree, The Canberra Times, 1 February 1989
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