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Entries in Senior Counsel applicants (5)

Tuesday
Dec022014

Closing time at the bar n' grill

Grasping for silk ... A deadline is a deadline, except when the bar president extends it ... NSW barrister 12 minutes late with his silk application ... Bar not obliged to consider any application for silk ... Inner and outer bars ... No stigma in not being a silk ... Kate Lilly reports 

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Thursday
Aug282014

Silk queue

Applicants for Senior Counsel in New South Wales ... 102 put their hands up in a bleak market ... Repeat contenders aplenty ... The list in full 

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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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Tuesday
Sep042012

Hands up for silk in Queensland

Thirty seven hopefuls from the Qld bar have applied for silk ... Including as many as five women ... Aspirations on display

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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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