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Entries in Senior Counsel selection (5)

Monday
Aug192013

Bar, bah

Exclusive ... NSW bar's 2013 list of applicants for silk ... Plenty of familiar names reappear ... Waving, not drowning ... Sifting now underway 

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Monday
Aug132012

The old silk road

NSW bar attracts a big, fat list of silk contenders … Many women apply … Lots of names from last year … Smallbone principle takes effect … Full list of applicants 

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Tuesday
Oct112011

The smell of burning silk

Updated on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by Registered CommenterJustinian

The selection of silk in NSW is stymied ... David Smallbone makes progress ... Trying to get to grips with the accuracy and fairness of a secretive process ... Arab Spring comes to Phillip Street 

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Tuesday
Oct192010

Criteria for silk still unfair

NSW silk selection reforms have not gone far enough, says Alexander Street SC ... The process still needs fundamental reform  ... Just when the bar council was patting itself on the back for a job well done, along comes a fresh broadside from an insider

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Monday
Aug162010

The call of silk

One hundred and twenty eight hopefuls have their hands up for the silk gown in the NSW bar's annual selection process ... New protocols to be tested ... Ambition, ego, status and money all jostling for a rails position ... We have the names 

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