The next step has been taken in Victorian barristers’ consideration of changing their titles from the rather anodyne Senior Counsel to the more traditional Queen’s Counsel. Of all those eligible, more than 85 per cent have applied to make the change. It may be one small step in the lives of the barristers concerned, but it is a great leap forward in the preservation of our constitutional system of government and the recognition of the Queen as the apex of the administration of justice.