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Entries in Senior Counsel selection (5)
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
The smell of burning silk
Updated on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by Justinian
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
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
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