# Talk:Serjeant-at-law

Some of the statements are all but meaningless. Others exhibit a bizarre syntax.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.68.94.86 (talk) 20:55, 5 May 2013 (UTC) 

Given that A. M. Sullivan was made a serjeant-at-law in 1912, it seems difficult to maintain that Lord Lindley was the last person appointed as serjeant-at-law given he was appointed in 1875. It's also difficult to maintain that the order of Serjeant-at-law died with Lord Lindley in 1921 as Sullivan only died in 1959. — Blue-Haired Lawyer t 19:10, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
I agree. But isn't the first line of the definition incomplete? It says "The Serjeants-at-Law (postnominal SL) was an order of barristers at the English bar."
It was also an order at the Irish bar (& others?), and A.M.Sullivan was a serjeant-at-law at the Irish bar. Was he able to transfer the title to the English bar when he moved to London? I don't think so. (He was a K.C. at the Irish bar, but only recognised as a junior barrister in England.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Donn300 (talk • contribs) 20:12, 4 April 2013 (UTC) 

I've just added a few lines about the serjeants wearing a piece of black cloth over the white cloth on the back of their wigs (the descendant of the coif). This went completely unmentioned and I felt it was necessary as whenever you see any painting of a serjeant from behind it is the black cloth attached to the back of their wig that you notice (as it almost entirely covers the white).
The sourcing is to a Wordpress site as I have never found a source that explains it better, but as it is the blog of the library of one of the Inns of Court I feel they can be trusted on legal history. 1stViscountessNivlac (talk) 08:12, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

in the bibliography section, the Joseph Haydn (1851) link to worldcat seemed to be a deadlink, since it did not work, so I searched worldcat and determined that the OCLC number on the Wikipedia link was wrong and changed it. but that hasn't fixed the problem and further investigation reveals that none of the worldcat links will take you to a page containing an entry for the required book. I'm not clever enough to figure out whether this is a Wikipedia problem or a worldcat problem so I leave this note to alert editors that it needs fixing. Cottonshirtτ 03:37, 1 November 2024 (UTC)