Early Legal Life
Chief Justice Forster graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Adelaide.
He was in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1940 to 1946 and was a Magistrate at the Adelaide Police Court from 1959 to 1961.
Chief Justice Forster was District Registrar of the High Court of Australia from 1966 to 1971 and before that was District Registrar from 1961 to 1966. He was Master of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1966 to 1971 and Deputy Master from 1961 to 1966.
Chief Justice Forster was a Member of the Standing Committee Senate at the Adelaide University from 1967 to 1971, Lecturer of Law and Procedure at the same time and lecturer of Criminal Law from 1957 to 1958.
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