NSW Senior Counsel Appointments

Prior to 1993 silks were referred to as QC or KC (KC from 1901-1952) depending on the reigning sovereign - they commenced being referred to as SC on and from 1993. Please note that formal titles and/or post nominals that may have been held by an individual on their appointment as a silk have been omitted.

Note: An individual is not listed here if it is know he/she was appointed silk in another jurisdiction prior to taking silk status in NSW where this is known.

Name	Date of appointment	External links
Rofe, David Fulton	1974
Simos, Theodore	1974
Hill, Brian Eugene	1974
Cripps, Jerrold Sydney	1974
O’Keefe, Barry Stanley John	1974
Burchett, James Charles Shelto	1974
Hunter, Robert Leslie	1974
Spender, John Michael	1974
Meagher, Roderick Pitt	1974
Reddy, William Edward	1974
Gleeson, Anthony Murray	1974
McLelland, Malcolm Herbert	1974
Ashton, Richard David Malcolm	1974
Job, Richard William	1974
Howell, Robert Andrew	26 November 1975
Cullen, Charles Leslie	26 November 1975
Murphy, Ronald Bruce	26 November 1975
Voss, David Kerrod	26 November 1975
Sheller, Charles Simon	26 November 1975
Hunt, David Anthony	26 November 1975
Traill, John David	26 November 1975
Gyles, Roger Vincent	26 November 1975
Byron, Ernest Frank	1976
Cohen, Brian John Keith	1976
Davidson, Thomas Swanson	1976
Denton, William Harding	1976
Cook, Adrian George Hingston	1976
Herron, Brian John	1976
Foord, John Murray	1976
Reynolds, Thomas O’Loghlen	1976
Clarke, Matthew John Robert	1976
Shields, Eric John	1976
Coombs, John Sebastian	1976
Lloyd-Jones, John	1976
Cole, Terence Rhoderic Hudson	1976
Gallop, John Foster	1976
Shillington, David Sydney	1977
Kelly, John Joseph Anthony	1977
Gregory, Warwick Henry	1977
Einfeld, Marcus Richard	1977
Wilcox, Murray Rutledge	1977
Conti, Richard Alan	1977
Perrignon, Edmund Theodore	1978
Smyth, John Graham	1978
Carruthers, Kenneth John	1978
Sperling, Harold David	1978
Young, Peter Wolstenholme	1978
Rolfe, James Moreton Neville	1978
Tobias, Murray Herbert	1978
Beaumont, Bryan Alan	1978

Note for interest

William Charles Wentworth, admitted in 1824 with Robert Wardell as foundation barristers in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, was accorded the distinction of wearing a silk gown in February 1835 - the first in private practice to be so recognised (Sydney Gazette, 12 February 1835). That was a 'patent of precedence' but did not entitle him to use the term 'King's Counsel'. Senior law officers customarily wore silk gowns in court in the early decades of the Supreme Court.