South Australian Numbered Acts South Australian Numbered ActsAfter Part 6 insert:
Part 7—Appointment of Senior Counsel, Queen's Counsel etc
91—Appointment of Senior Counsel
(1) The Chief Justice may, on behalf of the Supreme Court and in accordance with the Rules of the Court, appoint any legal practitioner as a Senior Counsel.
(2) The Chief Justice must ensure that notice of the appointment of a legal practitioner as a Senior Counsel is published in the Gazette as soon as practicable.
92—Appointment of Queen's Counsel etc
(1) The Attorney-General must, at the request of a legal practitioner who is a Senior Counsel, recommend to the Governor that the legal practitioner be appointed as a Queen's Counsel or King's Counsel (as the case may require) (and the Attorney-General may only make such a recommendation to the Governor on receipt of a request from a Senior Counsel in accordance with this subsection).
(2) The Governor may, on the recommendation of the Attorney-General, by notice in the Gazette, appoint a legal practitioner as a Queen's Counsel or King's Counsel (as the case may require).
(3) If a legal practitioner is appointed as a Queen's Counsel or King's Counsel, the legal practitioner—
(a) ceases to be a Senior Counsel; and
(b) will take precedence, as a Queen's Counsel or King's Counsel, in accordance with their former precedence as a Senior Counsel.
93—Revocation and resignation of appointments
(1) The Chief Justice may, on behalf of the Supreme Court and in accordance with the Rules of the Court, revoke the appointment of any legal practitioner as a Senior Counsel or as a Queen's Counsel or King's Counsel.
(2) A legal practitioner who has been appointed as a Senior Counsel, or as a Queen's Counsel or King's Counsel, may, by written notice to the Chief Justice, resign from that appointment.
(3) The Chief Justice must ensure that notice of a revocation of, or resignation from, an appointment as a Senior Counsel, or as a Queen's Counsel or King's Counsel, is published in the Gazette as soon as practicable.