NSW Chief Justice Andrew Bell has taken a swing at the QC states, telling new silks they should be proud of their “independence”.
In remarks after the class of ’22, Bell took a detour as he explained why NSW had adopted the rank of Senior Counsel in 1992.
Murder of the first degree: barristers gather outside the Supreme Court after new silks took their bow on Wednesday. “The designation SC rather than QC or KC is also consistent with the motto of the NSW Bar Association, adopted in 1959, namely ‘Servants of all, yet of none’.“Prior to the Queen’s recent death, this state last had KCs at a time when its bar was a fraction of its current size ... when our society was not the richly diverse multicultural one it has become in the ensuing 70 years.”By 2008, every state had followed NSW’s lead.
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