barrister
IPA: bˈærɪstɝ
noun
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A lawyer with the right to speak and argue as an advocate in higher lawcourts.
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Examples of "barrister" in Sentences
- The basis of the immunity of barristers has gone.
- Alongside the defending barrister is the jury box.
- The barrister was tried and executed for the murder.
- He is a barrister and solicitor of the supreme court.
- He is what they call a barrister, with nothing to do.
- The defending barrister will usually be nearest the jury.
- I was, as many young barristers are, An impecunious party.
- Tulsidas Desai was the first barrister in the Kheda district.
- He is also a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
- As counsel for the prosecution, Hastings was the first barrister to speak.
- He worked as a barrister, and was the director for the Selkirk Board of Trade.
- Lord Mansfield whenever a barrister pronounced a Latin word with a false quantity.
- In Pickwick Papers we read about a certain barrister who was described as a promising young man of about forty.
- He quoted Lord Denning that in the dictionary for example the word barrister comes directly after bankrupt and just before bastard.
- So likening you to one of them - as opposed to a "barrister" - could presumably be argued to be incapable of carrying a defamatory meaning.
- Although the word barrister is not used in the USA, all lawyers in America have to be members of the “bar” and to register with the Bar Association in order to practice.
- I'm writing from Nigeria -- not with an email that uses the word "barrister" and attempts to scam you out of thousands of your hard-earned dollars -- but rather as a visitor to this country that regularly turns up as a punch line on late night TV.
- I heard of one case here in England (unreported, the barrister was a friend-of-a-friend) where a lorry driver who went through a red light and hit a cyclist was held not to be liable because the lorry driver's barrister persuaded the judge that riding a bicycle through Manchester city centre was so recklessly foolhardy that the cyclist was "volens" as to the risk ...