In Victoria's Court of Appeal on Friday, the clerk called "Saverio Zirilli against The King for judgment" in a drug importation case and court president Justice Karin Emerton acknowledged the Queen's passing.
As Rosemary Rosamond's fraud trial resumed in the NSW District Court, Judge Robert Sutherland said: "Her Majesty may have passed away but the Crown continues".
And before Joseph Winters was sentenced in the District Court at Parramatta for causing a fatal accident, the judge called for a minute's silence as a mark of respect for the late monarch.
Australian Bar Association president Matt Collins KC said the Queen had served the people of Australia, the United Kingdom and Commonwealth with unfailing dignity, compassion, intelligence and grace over seven remarkable decades.
"Throughout that period, Australia has been very well served by, and owes much of its stability and prosperity to, the institutions and Westminster traditions of which Her Majesty has been a vital and wise custodian," he said in a statement.
Senior barristers in NSW and Victoria have in recent years been appointed as Senior Counsel. But existing QCs in those states, and other states and territories that continued to use that title, have instead become KC.
Law Institute of Victoria president Tania Wolff paid tribute on behalf of the state's solicitors.
"Through her 70-year reign, the Queen has been a constant figure in our lives. Her life's work exemplifies the qualities of dedication, commitment, compassion, dignity and an extraordinary work ethic," she said.
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