SYDNEY (AFP) - To wear or not to wear, that is the question confronting some of Australia's legal community as they struggle to balance the judicial scales on whether they should don traditional wigs in court.

The practice of judges and barristers wearing a horsehair head-covering in court, inherited from the British, has fallen from favour in recent years.
In Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, judges are no longer required to wear wigs in civil trials, while barristers in civil cases have largely tossed the habit out on its head.
But in the southern state of Victoria, where all civil trials are still held before a jury, the legal community is finding it harder to let go of its white ringlets.
Several judges in the Victorian County Court have ignored a direction from chief judge Michael Rozenes to go bareheaded for civil trials, The Australian newspaper reported Monday.
And barristers, although not expected to wear a wig if the judge is bareheaded, are also resisting the change.
Ross Gillies and David Martin, of the state's Common Law Bar Association, are in favour of counsel wearing wigs during County Court proceedings.
""If we are going to wear wigs in criminal trials, then why not have wigs in civil trials?"" Martin told The Australian.
The wig is seen by some as providing a measure of anonymity before juries but others believe it is an outdated throwback to colonial times.
""We are such troglodytes that we can't even move a foot ahead,"" The Australian quoted one unnamed barrister saying.
""I have been in court at times when my opponent has virtually glued his wig on to his head. Some of us seem not to feel complete without i