The New Zealand parliament has voted to call senior lawyers Senior Counsel instead of Queen’s Counsel. The change has been welcomed by the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand. However, the New Zealand Monarchist League described the reform as “a serious assault upon our national heritage”.
The feudal title is still used in Britain where these lawyers swear an oath of allegiance to the hereditary head of state. However, in Northern Ireland senior lawyers have won the right not to declare their loyalty to the Windsor family.