junior counsel
Americannoun
-
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.
-
a member of this body of barristers.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Ms Peggie's junior counsel, Charlotte Elves, later raised an email sent on 29 December 2023 from Dr Kate Searle, Dr Upton's line manager.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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
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
When junior counsel assisting at Icac, Greg Mahoney, suggested this was extraordinary, McKelligott replied: “Yeah.”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2014
Dunning led in a cause in which Scott was junior counsel.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
