Walter Edmunds
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Walter Edmunds was an Australian judge and politician.
Judge Walter Edmunds during the Royal Commission into AB Piddington Sydney 1927
King's Counsel
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A King's Counsel is a senior lawyer, usually a barrister, appointed by the monarch of some Commonwealth realms as a "counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarch is a woman, the title is Que
A 1903 caricature of King's Counsel Robert McCall, wearing his court robes at the Bar of England and Wales. For court, he wears a short wig, and bands instead of lace at the collar, but he retains the silk gown and court tailcoat worn on ceremonial occasions.
Caricature of Serjeant William Ballantine SL wearing court dress. The extremely small skullcap on the very top of the wig is a vestigal coif, worn only by serjeants-at-law. Caption reads "He resisted the temptation to cross-examine a Prince of the blood"; Vanity Fair, 5 March 1870