Scoop … NSW’s 2021 list of senior counsel hopefuls … Annual festival plays out against wreckage wrought by the plague … Despair – Depression – And everything in-between … Exclusive … Data and details 

A bulging list of 114 includes many old favourites, who have put down their names on the basis of try, try, try again. Woman applicants account for 23.7%, compared to last year’s percentage of 21.3%. 

In 2020, of the 108 who applied 26 were gonged (24%) and the year before of the 99 who wanted it, only 21 got it (21%). 

If you have nothing better to do in the Lockdown Lagoon, you can check out Justinian’s reporting on the annual Festival of Silk for the past seven years. 

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Here is the bar ‘n’ grill’s stats for NSW senior counsel in 2020 and earlier.  

The annual sacrament of silk involves an eddy of emotions – ego, hope, disappointment, dreams, dread, confusion, often followed by declarations along the lines, “I didn’t really want it … The whole thing is rigged … It’s a waste of time”. 

The full list of the 2021 SC applicants is HERE …