Senior Counsel

The title of Senior Counsel or State Counsel (postnominal SC) is given to a senior barrister or advocate in some countries, typically equivalent to the title "Queen's Counsel" (QC) used in some Commonwealth Realms. "Senior Counsel" is used in current or former Commonwealth countries or jurisdictions which have chosen to change the title "Queen's Counsel" to a name without monarchical connotations, sometimes (but not always) because the British monarch is no longer head of state, such that reference to the Queen is no longer appropriate. Examples of jurisdictions which have made the change because of the latter reason include Hong Kong, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Kenya, Malawi, Singapore, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. Just as a junior counsel is "called to the Bar", a Senior Counsel is, in some jurisdictions, said to be "called to the Inner Bar".