Here’s the 2015 list of the NSW bar n’ grill’s applicants for senior counsel … 113 seeking recognition … Only a small contingent of women with their hands up … Here we go, again 

Some 113 of NSW’s finest briefs have applied for silk in the 2015 anointment round. 

Eleven, or less than 10 percent, of the contenders are women, one of the lowest numbers in that category we’ve seen for years. Four of the female applicants are prosecutors. 

Last year there were 102 NSW applicants, including 16 women (15.7 percent, up on the previous year’s 13 percent). 

You can find more information about senior counsel applications in recent years here   

Of the 2015 contestants we can expect around 24 of them to be winners after all the background information is crunched and the votes are in … 

Abadee  Allister John
7 Wentworth Selborne 

Adams  Neil John
Crown Prosecutors 

Alder  Neil John
DPP’s Chambers 

Ash  David Percy Mackay
Frederick Jordan 

Assaf  Farid
Banco 

Baran  David Emmanuel
Jack Shand 

Barrett  Patrick Edward
Crown Prosecutors 

Bates  Philip William
Sir Anthony Mason 

Beckett  Simeon Asai
Maurice Byers 

Bevan  Christopher John
8 Wentworth 

Brady  Grant Allan
Forbes 

Brennan  Thomas Joseph
13 Selborne Wentworth 

Bruckner  Peter Kurt
Ground Wentworth 

Carr  Lee John
Crown Prosecutors Newcastle 

Cashman  Peter Kenneth
University of Sydney

Casselden  Adam Craig
State 

Cheshire  Anthony Peter
8 Wentworth 

Cinque  Maria Maddalena
Crown Prosecutors 

Cook  Doran Lane
Blackstone 

Corish  Thomas Scott
Forbes 

Creasey  Wayne Thomas
Crown Prosecutors Newcastle 

Culkoff  Vera
2 Selborne 

Daley  Mark Allan John
Frederick Jordan 

Druitt  Robyn Rose
Arthur Phillip 

Duncan  James George
Level 22 

Fernon  Andrew Francis
University 

Fitzimmons  William Markey
9 Windeyer 

Freeman  Christopher Dominic
Culwulla 

Gambi  Reno George
2 Wentworth 

Gartelmann  Timothy Hans
Samuel Griffith 

George  Gregory Peter
3 Wentworth 

Gibian  Mark
HB Higgins 

Giles  Jeremy Christopher
7 Wentworth 

Glasson  Robert Dudley
Blackstone 

Glissan  Paul Raymond
4 Selborne 

Goldstein  Steven
Edmund Barton 

Goodman  Scott Anthony
7 Wentworth 

Gooley  John Vincent
Blackstone 

Gracie  Malcolm Reeves
Blackstone 

Green  Michael
13 St James 

Griffin  Patrick James
7 Garfield Barwick 

Hart  Christian Andrew Wardell
12 Church Street 

Heath  Michael Joseph
5 Wentworth 

Herbert  Siobhan Pauline
Crown Prosecutors 

Hickey  Gregory John
4 Wentworth 

Hill  Alun Leslie
Chalfont 

Hoeben  Geraldine Maple Myra
Clarence 

Hogan-Doran  Dominique
6 St James 

Hughes  Stephen Farrell
11 Garfield Barwick 

Hull  Brendan
12 Selborne Wentworth 

Johnston  Matthew James
Forbes 

Jones  Gregroy John
11 Garfield Barwick 

Jordan  David Keith
13 St James 

Judge  Lynette Elizabeth
Lachlan Macquarie 

Kell  David
10 Selborne Wentworth 

Kerr  Victor Fraser
11 St James 

King  Peter Edward
Queens Square 

Kostopoulos  Andrew Stephen
Edmund Barton 

Lange  Peter David
Maurice Byers 

Lawson  Mark Roy
Edmund Barton 

Leask  Paul Anthony
Crown Prosecutors 

Loofs  Jean-Jaques Thomas
8 Garfield Barwick 

Lowe  William Peter *
Pitt Street 

Marshall  Roger David
Ground Wentworth 

McAuley  Michael John
2 Selborne 

McAvoy  Anthony Logan
Frederick Jordan

McGrath  Gordon Mackintosh
13 St James 

McGuire  Paul Rennie
7 Garfield Barwick 

McKay  Kenneth Leslie
Crown Prosecutor 

McLure  David Alexander
New 

McManus  William Vincent
13 Selborne Wentworth 

Mehigan  Terrence Matthew
12 Selborne Wentworth 

Montgomery  Robert Edward
9 Selborne

Muston  Edward Charles
7 Wentworth Selborne

Naylor  Andrew Peter Livingstone
Maurice Byers 

Neal  Henry James Alexander
9 Wentworth

Nixon  Scott Michael
6 Selborne Wentworth

O’Brien  Anthony John
7 Garfield Barwick

O’Donnell  Christopher Peter
Frederick Jordan

O’Rourke  Gina Maree
Crown Prosecutors

Patrick  Craig Christopher
Crown Prosecutors

Perrignon  Richard John
4 St James Hall

Pickles  Andrew Michael
Martin Place

Potts  Jason Anthony Christian
8 Selborne

Priestley  Dominic Alexander
New

Prince  Shane Eric John
State

Robertson  David Alexander Cochrane
Nigel Bowen

Rogers  Anthony Gerard
University

Royle  Richard William Carter
Sir Owen Dixon

Sansom  Paul Neil William
Waratah

Scragg  Gregory John Lambert
Frederick Jordan

Singleton  Peter Francis
3 St James Hall

Stanton  David Shane
Maurice Byers

Stone  Andrew John
Sir James Martin

Stuckey-Clarke  Jennifer Ellen
15 Wardell

Tabuteau  Giles James
Crown Prosecutors

Toomey  Dominic Robert John
11 Garfield Barwick

Turnbull  John Barclay
9 Windeyer

Vindin  Christian Andrew
2 Wentworth

Walker  Mary Catherine
9 Wentworth

Walsh  Mark Justin
7 Wentworth Selborne

Ward  Christopher Scott
8 St James Hall

Watson  Christopher John
Forbes

Waugh  Gregory Richard
12 Selborne Wentworth

Wendler  Gabriel Dominicus
7 Windeyer

Whalan  Lesley Anne
Frederick Jordan

Wilkinson  Stephen William
11 Garfield Barwick

Williams  Dominic John
2 Selborne

Williams  Nanette Lee
Crown Prosecutors

Wilson  David Michael
Elizabeth Street

Wood  Christopher Dennis
13 Selborne Wentworth

Wright  Michael Luscombe
Frederick Jordan

Wylie  Ian Stuart
Blackstone 

List of 2015 senior counsel applicants with practice areas and seniority