From these groups rise the top of the crème, otherwise known as senior counsels. Being a senior counsel is the height of success in the profession. The equivalent of these class of lawyers in England are the Queen’s Counsels or QCs. DPP Nordin Haji has now hired Queen’s Counsel Khawar Qureshi to lead the prosecution of Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu and ostensibly other high-profile corruption cases. It’s not enough that many or all senior counsels declined the opportunity to prosecute these cases as special prosecutors.

Source: The Star December 14, 2018 21:45 UTC