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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He added: "Where the disadvantage occurred is that he was denied the invaluable assistance of junior counsel in a murder case which had approximately four weeks to run."
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2023
Of 700-odd files, two were thought to be relevant to the hearing by junior counsel to the inquest Matthew Flinn.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2020
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
"They are shaking in their shoes," Serjeant Bluestone said to his junior counsel, Mr. Mainsail.
From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony
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