The New South Wales Bar Association

ABOUT US

The New South Wales Bar Association is a voluntary association of practising barristers. Our aims, as expressed in our Constitution, include:

to promote the administration of justice;
to promote, maintain and improve the interests and standards of local practising barristers;
to make recommendations with respect to legislation, law reform, rules of court and the business and procedure of courts;
to seek to ensure that the benefits of the administration of justice are reasonably and equally available to all members of the community;
to arrange and promote continuing professional development;
to promote fair and honourable practice amongst barristers; to suppress, discourage and prevent malpractice and professional misconduct;
to inquire into questions as to professional conduct and etiquette of barristers;
to confer and cooperate with bodies in Australia or elsewhere representing the profession of the law;
to encourage professional, educational, cultural and social relations amongst the members of the Bar Association; and
to make donations to charities and such other objects in the public interest as determined from time to time by the Bar Council.

Our motto: 'Servants of all yet of none'

The motto of the coat of arms of the New South Wales Bar Association is 'Servants of all yet of none'. The motto was included on the coat of arms granted to the Bar Association by the College of Arms in 1959. The motto emphasises specialised functions of barristers, which over the centuries have come to distinguish them from other legal practitioners.

The New South Wales Bar Association
Selborne Chambers
174 Phillip Street
Sydney 2000
DX 1204
Ph: (02) 9232 4055 Fax: (02) 9221 1149 or send us an e-mail
ACN 000 033 652 - ABN 18 526 414 014

What is a barrister?

Annual Reports

Bar Council regional representatives

Bar Councillors, 1902-2006

Bar Councillors 2007

Chief Executives & Registrars

Committees & sections

Constitution of the Bar Association

Fifty years of Bench & Bar dinners

Life members

Nineteenth century barristers

Presidents of the Bar Association

Staff of the Bar Association

Statistical profile of the NSW Bar

Relevant Legislation
Legal Profession Act 2004 (NSW)

Legal Profession Regulation 2005

New South Wales Barristers Rules

Disclaimer
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