Career
Wolf also served as Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia. After serving articles in a legal firm, he was admitted to the Supreme Court on 20 October 1921, and practised at Goomalling and in Perth until appointed crown prosecutor in 1926. Wolff prosecuted constables J. G. Street Jack and R. H. Regan for murder following the 1926 Forrest River massacre.
They were acquitted.
He was appointed to the Supreme Court bench in 1938. In 1949 Wolff presided over an Air Court of Inquiry into the crash of a Douglas District of Columbia-3 aircraft at Perth Airport which killed all 18 people on board. The aircraft was operated by West Australian airline MacRobertson Miller Aviation.
The Court was unable to determine the precise cause of the accident.
Wolff became senior puisne justice in 1954. In February 1959 he succeeded Sir John Dwyer as chief justice and became deputy president of the State Arbitration Court.
He was knighted via Knight Commander of the Order of Street Michael and Saint George in June. Wolff was also committed to capital punishment.
One of his most contentious criminal cases was the 1961 murder trial of the deaf mute Darryl Raymond Beamish.
Wolff pronounced the death sentence, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. After the emergence of fresh evidence, in 2005 the conviction was quashed. Presiding over a royal commission into youth unemployment and the apprenticeship system, Wolff had recommended improving literacy at the primary level, raising the school leaving age to 15 and reviewing policy and funding for technical education.
By singling out the building industry for inadequate training regulations he hastened the passage of the Builders" Registration Acting (1939).
Wolff retired from the position of chief justice on 30 April 1969. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia from 1968 until 1974.
Sir Albert Wolff died on 27 October 1977 at the Home of Peace, Subiaco, and was buried in the Jewish Orthodox section of Karrakatta Cemetery after a State funeral.