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Appointment as King's Counsel is an office recognised by courts. Members in the UK have the privilege of sitting within the inner bar of court. As members wear silk gowns of a particular design, appointment as King's Counsel is known informally as taking silk and KCs are often colloquially called silks. [1]
More than 50 King’s Counsel and junior barristers made a rare out-of-court appearance in their black gowns and wigs. Senior barristers don mourning bands to pay tribute to Queen’s public ...
The Speaker of the House of Commons and Lord Speaker of the House of Lords wearing their state robes for the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in 2023 In the House of Commons, the Speaker traditionally wore a black silk gown over a black cloth court suit of legal pattern, knee-breeches, white bands, full-bottomed wig, and carried ...
Such robes are worn by barristers in all courts, including the District Court. Like King's Counsel in England, Senior Counsel generally wear a short bar wig and black silk or poplin gown with flap collar and long, closed sleeves over a buttoned and broad-cuffed court coat. Their shirts will have a detachable stiff wing collar, worn with bands.
The silk scarves are to be sold for the Sheriffs’ & Recorder’s Fund charity appeal.
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A Queen's Counsel (post-nominal QC), or King's Counsel (post-nominal KC) during the reign of a king, is an eminent lawyer (usually a barrister or advocate) who is appointed by the monarch to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law." The term is recognized as an honorific. Appointments are made from within the legal profession based ...
The category King's Counsel is for barristers appointed Queen's or King's Counsel (QC or KC), and lawyers appointed QC or KC honoris causa, who have been appointed by letters patent to be one of "Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law".