Charles Kennedy Comans, CBE, OBE, QC (born 21 October 1914) was a lawyer, lecturer, the former First Parliamentary Counsel of the Commonwealth from 1972 - 1977.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1965, the Commonwealth Queen's Counsel in 1974, and CBE in 1977.
The Charles Comans meeting room in the Office of Parliamentary Counsel in Canberra was named in his honour.
[4] Some of Comans' more notable work was the drafting of the Double Dissolution Proclamation read for then Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, on the steps of Old Parliament House on 11 November 1975.
Comans has a room named for him at the Office of Parliamentary Counsel and his history has been recorded at the National Library Comans married Nancy Button in August 1944; they had three sons - Michael (now deceased), Peter (now deceased) and Philip - and one daughter - Leigh.