LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2014 - SECT 160
Prohibition of official schemes for recognition of seniority or status
LEGAL PROFESSION UNIFORM LAW APPLICATION ACT 2014 - SECT 160
Prohibition of official schemes for recognition of seniority or status
160 Prohibition of official schemes for recognition of seniority or status
(1) Any prerogative right or power of the Crown to appoint persons as Queen's
Counsel or to grant letters patent of precedence to counsel remains abrogated.
(2) Nothing in this section affects the appointment of a person who was
appointed as Queen's Counsel before the commencement of this section.
(3)
Nothing in this section abrogates any prerogative right or power of the Crown
to revoke such an appointment.
(4) No law or practice prevents a person who
was Queen's Counsel immediately before the commencement of this section from
continuing to be Queen's Counsel while a barrister or solicitor.
(5)
Executive or judicial officers of the State have no authority to conduct a
scheme for the recognition or assignment of seniority or status among legal
practitioners.
(6) Nothing in subsection (5) prevents the publication of a
list of legal practitioners in the order of the dates of their admission, or a
list of barristers or solicitors in the order of the dates of their becoming
barristers or solicitors, or a list of Queen's Counsel in their order of
seniority.
(7) In this section--
"executive or judicial officers" includes the Governor, Ministers of the
Crown, Parliamentary Secretaries, statutory office holders, persons employed
in the Public Service or by the State, an authority of the State or another
public employer, and also includes judicial office holders or persons acting
under the direction of the Chief Justice of New South Wales or other judicial
office holder.
"Queen's Counsel" means one of Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law for
the State of New South Wales and extends to King's Counsel where appropriate.
