Background
He thus joined the bench of which his father Philip Whistler Street was then chief justice.
He thus joined the bench of which his father Philip Whistler Street was then chief justice.
He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on 7 October 1931. In 1949, as senior puisne judge, Street acted as chief justice when Sir Frederick Jordan died. Confirmed in that office from 6 January 1950, he was sworn in on 7 February, thus becoming the second of three generations of the Street family to serve New South Wales as Chief Justice.
Farewelled in court in December 1959, he retired from the bench on his seventieth birthday.
In 1951 he was appointed a knight of grace of the Order of Street John of Jerusalem. Street died on 15 February 1972 and was accorded a state funeral.