Brian Ross Martin was admitted to practise law in 1970, becoming an assistant Crown Prosecutor in Adelaide in 1974 and eventually the Senior Crown Prosecutor in 1982. He was appointed as a
Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1984 and in 1991 was appointed Senior Counsel assisting the
Royal Commission into WA Inc. Martin was appointed as the
Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in 1997 a position he held until taking up his appointment as a Judge of the South Australian Supreme Court. He was sworn in as the
Northern Territory's fifth Chief Justice on 27 January 2004 following the retirement of
Brian Frank Martin; and held the position until 2010. In February 2012, Brian Martin was sworn in as an Acting Judge of the Western Australian Supreme Court, to preside over the trial of
Lloyd Rayney who was charged with the August 2007 murder of his wife,
Corryn Rayney. Martin delivered his judgment, finding Rayney not guilty of his wife's murder, in November 2012. In July 2016, he was appointed as the
Royal Commissioner for the
Royal Commission into Juvenile Detention in the Northern Territory, after the
ABC Four Corners program "
Australia's Shame" was broadcast. Martin resigned four days later, saying that "rightly or wrongly, in this role I would not have the full confidence of sections of the Indigenous community which has a vital interest in this inquiry." == Other interests ==