junior counsel
Americannoun
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a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
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a member of this body of barristers.
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Senior counsel to the inquiry Angela Graham KC, Laura Thomson KC and Jason Beer KC resigned two days later, as did junior counsel Rachel Barrett and Sarah Loosemore.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025
Mr. Hutchinson was junior counsel for his best-known case, when he defended Penguin Books against obscenity charges in 1960 for publishing an uncensored version of D.H.
From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2017
They were then prosecuted by the office of the PPS, which was represented at all times in court by an experienced senior and junior counsel.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2014
The trial was adjourned until Monday because Mopp’s junior counsel was suffering chicken pox and Mopp was forced to present the case solely.
From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2014
"Of course, dearest, let us learn Italian;" and I thought how I'd crush a junior counsel some day with a smashing bit of Dante.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Lever, Charles James
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