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
Tobin, Terence Kevin	1985
Hidden, Peter John	1985
McClellan, Peter David	1985
Emmett, Arthur Robert	1985
Farmer, James Alfred	1985
Viney, Michael Alan	1986
Newman, Maurice Charles Campbell	1986
Crumpton, John Alfred	1986
Pain, Edward Oscar Guthrie	1986
Horler, Kenneth Gregory	1986
Backhouse, Cecily Elizabeth	1986
Whitlam, Antony Philip	1986
Urquhart, Paul David	1986
Newport, Barry Charles	1986
Stowe, John Milton	1986
Palmer, George Alfred	1986
Peterson, Russell John	1986
Caldwell, William Wallis	1986
Shaw, Jeffrey William	1986
Gummow, William Montague Charles	1986
Macfarlan, Robert Bruce Scott	1986
Spigelman, James Jacob	1986
Howie, Roderick Neil	1986
Dalgleish, Alexander Philip Stuart	1987
Bannon, Peter Charles	1987
O’Loughlin, Edward Leonard	1987
Sides, Martin Langford	1987
Norrish, Stephen Ronald	1987
Thompson, David Rudd	1987
Naughton, Terence Fenwick Marley	1987
Cowdery, Nicholas Richard	1987
Macadam, Mark Anthony	1987
Williams, Michael Joseph	1987
Einstein, Clifford Roy	1987
Heydon, John Dyson	1987
Sackar, John Robertson	1987
Jucovic, Thomas Michael	1987
Bloom, David Howard	1987
Sweeney, Charles Augustine	1987
Bathurst, Thomas Frederick	1987
Adams, Michael Frederick	1987
Orpwood, Michael	1987
Dent, Peter	6 July 1988
Waddy, Lloyd Dengate Stacy	6 July 1988
Bellanto, Anthony John	6 July 1988
James, Bruce Meredith	6 July 1988
Miller, Glen Thomas Watson	6 July 1988
Letcher, Dean	6 July 1988
Menzies, Paul	6 July 1988
Donovan, Brian Harrie Kevin	6 July 1988

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.