NSW Bar Council has a “big problem” as it “enters into the political arena” by supporting the Voice to Parliament, says Barrister Stuart Wood.
Mr Wood said when a Bar Council becomes political, “it risks damaging and degrading its institutional capacity to speak”.
“Once you become a cheerleader for a political cause, then your ability to speak out on unpopular causes is diminished,” he told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
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