Level 1
33 Barrack Street, Perth WA 6000
Telephone: (08) 9218 9211
Mobile: 0419 816 478
Email: wboucaut@lenkingchambers.com.au
Year admitted: 1975
Year elected to the Bar: 1991
Year appointed King’s Counsel: 2010
William Boucaut KC
Bill was admitted into legal practice in 1975. He has worked in private practice and SA’s Crown Prosecutor’s Office before spending several years in Hong Kong where he was with the Attorney General’s Chambers. He returned to SA and signed the Bar Roll in 1991. He practises predominately in the area of criminal law and has appeared in some of the state’s most notorious murder trials. He has sat as an acting coroner and was counsel assisting the coroner in the long-running Wangary (Eyre Peninsular) Bushfire Inquiry.
Bill took silk in 2010. He is a member of the Bar’s Criminal Law Committee and has served as the chairman of that group. He is the First Deputy Presiding Member of the Parole Board of South Australia. He practises out of Len King Chambers in Adelaide and is a visiting member of Albert Wolff Chambers in Perth.
PRACTICE AREAS
QUALIFICATIONS
LLB University of Adelaide
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Criminal Law Committee (South Australia)