One of the greatest political scandals in the state's history, which involved bribery, corruption and the jailing of a minister, has been revisited in the NSW Supreme Court with one of the jailed conspirators arguing he should be allowed back on the roll of solicitors.

Howard Hilton, 73, at the Supreme Court last week. Credit:Nick Moir

"It was well rumoured at the time, that Buckets accepted a lot of bribes," said one witness, solicitor Norm Gibson, last week.

He was referring to the state's former corrective services minister, Rex "Buckets" Jackson, who was jailed in 1987 after he was found to have "prostituted his high office" by accepting bribes to feed his gambling addiction.