James Robert Anderson KC (12 June 1864 – 7 April 1913) was a lawyer in the Colony and State of South Australia.
[2] He started in practice as a solicitor, and formed a partnership with R(obert Andrew) Carr Castle (1863–1931) in 1886, with offices in Mutual Chambers, King William Street.
[citation needed] In May 1906 Anderson entered into partnership Sir John's nephew James Leslie Gordon (1884 – 25 July 1915),[3] with offices at Unity Chambers, Currie Street.
[4] He received considerable praise for his conduct of the prosecution in the 1902 Miles Flynn case,[1] in which £1500 in notes and specie was stolen by highway robbers near the Block 14 company's smelting works at Port Adelaide.
[5] In 1902 he sat for the House of Assembly seat of Port Adelaide, and missed out by three votes in a strongly Labor district, a tribute to his powers of advocacy.