Lawyer's show-and-tell win puts silk system in jeopardy

By Geesche Jacobsen
Updated November 10 2012 - 12:49am, first published October 6 2011 - 2:15pm
''I won't be surprised if ultimately silks are abolished.'' ... senior public defender Mark Ierace, SC.
''I won't be surprised if ultimately silks are abolished.'' ... senior public defender Mark Ierace, SC.

THE system of selecting some barristers to take silk might have to be abolished following the legal victory of one applicant over the organisation that grants it, lawyers have said.

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