Justinian is delighted to announce the NSW Bar’s silk applicants for 2025.
It’s a well-stocked bundle of 122 contenders, with plenty of repeat hopefuls.
2025 sees a lower quotient of female aspirants than last year: 16% compared to 20% of the 109 who applied for the bauble in 2024.
The selectors will end up anointing about 20%-25% of the current crop.
For those who like to keep an eye on the records, here is our list of the 2024 applicants and those who successfully jumped through the hoops.
Someone in the bar bureaucracy has a job with the abacus and tallies up the numbers and percentages. Here’s the latest number crunch and here’s what it looked like in 2024.
And these are the 2025 contestants for senior counsel: names, date of bar admission, and chambers.
Pouyan Afshar
30/4/2012
9th Floor Wentworth Chambers
Nicholas James Allan
9/10/2006
Queen’s Square Chambers
Halil Altan
4/4/2005
Two Wentworth
Kelvin Wayne Andrews
4/11/1983
Sir Owen Dixon Chambers
Michael John Astill
26/8/2013
Greenway Chambers
Kenneth Hall Averre
9/12/2008
Forbes Chambers
Kavita Balendra
30/4/2008
4 Wentworth Chambers
Eric Balodis
24/2/2002
Crown Prosecutors Chambers – Sydney
Philip John Bambagiotti
14/2/1997
Tenth Floor St James Hall Chambers
Conor Enda Bannan
21/4/2011
12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Lyndelle Elizabeth Barnett
3/5/2010
Level 22 Chambers
Emma Louise Beechey
6/9/2013
New Chambers
Mark Harold Best
5/9/1994
4 Wentworth Chambers
Timothy Owen Bland
15/2/2002
Hunter Street Chambers
Simon Blount
2/5/2005
State Chambers
Andrew Boe
30/11/2009
Black Chambers
Paul Gerard Bolster
4/8/2000
Two Wentworth
Benjamin Christey Ashe Bradley
1/10/2006
Greenway Chambers
Matthew Christopher Breeze
7/10/2009
8th Floor Garfield Barwick Chambers
Victoria Rosemarie Brigden
3/5/2010
8th Floor Selborne Chambers
Justin Ezra Finlayson Brown
14/5/2013
13 Wentworth Chambers
Peter Kurt Bruckner
15/2/2002
Ground Floor Wentworth Chambers
Andrew John Bulley
14/2/1997
5 Wentworth Chambers
Andrew Dugald Campbell
13/8/1999
State Chambers
David Lenton Carroll
9/8/2002
Maurice Byers Chambers
Peter Kenneth Cashman
1/7/2005
Third Floor Wentworth Chambers
Michelle Castle
6/12/2007
University Chambers
Therese Marie Catanzariti
3/5/2010
13 Wentworth Chambers
Mark Andrew Cleary
7/8/1998
Jack Shand Chambers
John Caspar Conde
28/9/2012
New Chambers
Brian Howard Costello
28/9/2015
Crown Prosecutors Newcastle – Mark Sherring Chambers
Joanna Elizabeth Davidson
30/1/2012
Sixth Floor Selborne/Wentworth Chambers
Michael Joseph Dawson
15/2/2002
University Chambers
Antonino Di Francesco
8/10/2007
Frederick Jordan Chambers
Phillip James English
2/5/2011
Third Floor St James’ Hall
Courtney Therese Ensor
29/4/2013
New Chambers
Geoffrey Nicholas Hannan Farland
25/8/2014
University Chambers
Paul Folino-Gallo
30/4/2007
Third Floor Wentworth Chambers
Roderick John Murray Foord
19/12/1986
Ninth Floor, Windeyer Chambers
Scott Andrew Fraser
6/10/2009
Public Defenders Chambers
Christopher Dominic Freeman
26/8/1991
Culwulla Chambers
Gregory Peter George
31/8/1992
Tenth Floor St James Hall Chambers
Alex Giurtalis
9/8/2004
Jack Shand Chambers
Ross David Glover
3/5/2010
9th Floor Wentworth Chambers
Ivan Louis Griscti
10/8/2001
Level 22 Chambers
Jnana Gumbert
13/8/2012
Jack Shand Chambers
Roger Leonard Harper
9/8/2002
Culwulla Chambers
Adam Michael Hochroth
30/4/2012
Banco Chambers
Philip Geoffrey Hogan
14/2/1997
Crown Prosecutors Chambers – Sydney
Jacob Horowitz
17/2/2003
11 St James Hall
David Alexander Hughes
3/5/2010
7 Wentworth Selborne
Thomas Desmond Forrest Hughes
7/4/1989
Trust Chambers
David Paul Hume
26/8/2013
Sixth Floor Selborne/Wentworth Chambers
Matthew Thomas Hutchings
1/2/2002
13 Wentworth Chambers
Elliot Alexander James Hyde
2/5/2005
Banco Chambers
John Edmund Hynes
4/5/2009
Ninth Floor Selborne Chambers
Neil Stuart Jackson
14/2/1997
Frederick Jordan Chambers
Oliver Robert Jones
4/3/2019
Eleven Wentworth
David Keith Jordan
9/3/1992
13th Floor St James Hall
Bora Dogu Kaplan
3/5/20109th Floor
Wentworth Chambers
Matthew Arthur Karam
25/8/2014
New Chambers
Emmanuel Stepan Kerkyasharian
4/5/2010
Forbes Chambers
Nicolas Michael Hervic Kirby
2/9/2009
12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Daniel Klineberg
4/9/2009
8th Floor Selborne Chambers
Joshua Paul Knackstredt
8/10/2007
Greenway Chambers
Peter David Lange
14/3/2002
Maurice Byers Chambers
Brett Le Plastrier
1/7/2013
7 Wentworth Selborne
Brendan Lim
31/3/2014
Eleven Wentworth
William Peter Lowe
11/10/1999
Crown Prosecutors Chambers – Sydney
Dilan Mahendra
19/4/2010
Quay Chambers
Scott Jay Maybury
9/8/2004
Jack Shand Chambers
Patricia Mary McEniery
4/5/2009
Seventh Floor Garfield Barwick Chambers
Ian Stewart McLachlan
11/1/1999
Forbes Chambers
Christine Melis
1/7/2015
Maurice Byers Chambers
Donald Hamish Mitchell
8/10/2007
Sixth Floor Selborne/Wentworth Chambers
Tina Moisidis
1/2/2001
Maurice Byers Chambers
Ian Hunter Nash
2/5/2005
Public Defenders Chambers
Andrew Peter Livingstone Naylor
15/2/2002
Maurice Byers Chambers
Daniel Alexander Neggo
4/5/2009
University Chambers
Hugh Nicholas Newton
25/2/2000
11 St James Hall
Elizabeth Rose Nicholson
29/4/2013
Crown Prosecutors Chambers – Sydney
Andrew Charles Norrie
5/5/2008
Crown Prosecutors Chambers – Sydney
Greg Owen Joseph O’Mahoney
3/5/2010
New Chambers
Callan Patrick O’Neill
30/4/2012
12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Julian Edward O’Sullivan
17/2/2003
13 Wentworth Chambers
Beth Ann Oliak
26/10/2009
Frederick Jordan Chambers
Thomas Harington John Hyde Page
7/4/2010
5 Selborne
David Hugh Patch
2/8/1991
Crown Prosecutors Chambers – Sydney
Stephanie Adele Christine Patterson
30/4/2012
Sixth Floor Selborne/Wentworth Chambers
Christopher James Peadon
19/5/2011
New Chambers
Simon Jeffrey Philips
15/2/2002
12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Susan Burton Phillips
20/2/1995
13th Floor St James Hall
David Charles Price
9/10/20067 Wentworth Selborne
Tom Hugh Michael Quilter
26/8/2013
Public Defenders Chambers
Katrina Lee Ratcliffe
5/6/2008
Crown Prosecutors Chambers
John-Paul d’Evreux Redmond
11/8/2003
Frederick Jordan Chambers
Patrick David Reynolds
5/5/2008
8th Floor Selborne Chambers
Lachlan David Robison
23/3/2010
State Chambers
Patrick Joseph Rooney
30/4/2007
13 Wentworth Chambers
Julia Lilian Roy
11/4/2013
Sixth Floor Selborne/Wentworth Chambers
Francois Franswa F Salama
10/5/2006
13th Floor St James Hall
Lee-May Saw
3/5/2010
Frederick Jordan Chambers
Adam David Searle
25/2/2000
State Chambers
Michael Chee Liang Seck
24/5/2007
6 St James Hall Chambers
Joanne Shepard
1/5/2006
12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
James Sleight
27/2/1998
Ninth Floor Windeyer Chambers
Gary John Smith
23/2/2001
Jack Shand Chambers
David Shane Stanton
31/8/1992
Maurice Byers Chambers
Christopher Michael Tam
1/9/2017
8th Floor Selborne Chambers
Christopher Peter Taylor
4/2/2002
Crown Prosecutors’ Chambers – Sydney
Turvey Tak-Wai To
16/2/2004
Sir Anthony Mason Chambers
Iain Andrew Todd
13/8/1999
Frederick Jordan Chambers
Daniel Joseph Tynan
2/6/2008
12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Bart Vasic
7/8/1998
Sir Owen Dixon Chambers
Mary Catherine Walker
20/5/1988
9th Floor Wentworth Chambers
Luke McDonald Waterson
2/5/201112
Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Michael John Weightman
2/10/2009
Newcastle Chambers
David Samuel Weinberger
25/2/2000
9th Floor Wentworth Chambers
Gabriel Dominicus Wendler
12/2/1988
Seventh Floor Windeyer Chambers
Robert Douglas White
17/5/2010
12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers
Adrian Nicholas Williams
2/5/2005
Wardell Chambers
Erik William Young
2/5/2005
5 Selborne