Overview
- Attorney-General Michelle Rowland announced the appointment Monday, confirming Dr Ruth Higgins SC as the next solicitor-general.
- Her selection creates Australia’s first female pairing of the nation’s top two law officers.
- Higgins will begin in early June on a five-year term.
- She replaces Dr Stephen Donaghue KC, who left the post to join Victoria’s Court of Appeal.
- As ASIC’s lead counsel in the Star case, she led litigation that resulted last month in Federal Court findings against former executives over failures to address money-laundering risks.