(n.) Counselor at law; a counsel admitted to plead at the bar, and undertake the public trial of causes, as distinguished from an attorney or solicitor. See Attorney.
Example Sentences:
(1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
(2) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(3) However, John's first stage success, A Dock Brief – set in the cells, where an incompetent barrister counsels himself and his convicted client – was rooted in his own nervousness about failure and his permanent terror at having responsibility for another's fate.
(4) Figures released by the MoJ show that 1,200 barristers earned a minimum of £100,000 each from criminal legal aid last year.
(5) The pair’s barrister, Charanjit Jutla, said both men were of good character and deeply regretted their conduct.
(6) Julian Knowles, a barrister from London's Matrix Chambers specialising in extradition cases, said there was a definite need for changes.
(7) It is also a shame that the Government has tried to put the blame for its own actions onto barristers, when the truth is that no-one can be criticised for deciding not accept a 30% cut.
(8) Rupert Myers is a barrister specialising in criminal law
(9) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
(10) Abramovich said little and spoke only in Russian, with the judge, Dame Elizabeth Gloster, and a packed courtroom of barristers, security guards and supporters listening to a translation via headphones.
(11) Although Alan Hills did not go quite as far as Redknapp's barrister in characterising the football boss's business sense as "disastrous", he admitted Redknapp's decision to invest £250,000 in a failed bid to take over Oxford United – money that was never to be seen again – had been "very unsuccessful".
(12) However, the barrister says they could link up with others in Northern Ireland and Britain, such as the Occupy movement and UK Uncut, who are equally disgusted at the banks' behaviour during this long recession.
(13) The barrister, playwright and author Sir John Mortimer , who has died aged 85, was a man for all the seasons that touched his Chilterns garden, where he lived as profusely as he wrote, in a spirit of unjudgmental generosity.
(14) The case hit the buffers when the FCA's barrister disclosed a note from 2009 that the defence had not seen.
(15) My worry is it would stop women coming forward to seek help to protect their children.” Lucy Reed, a family law barrister, who runs the Transparency Project , which aims to increase understanding of the system, said opening up the courts further should be an issue for parliament to discuss.
(16) After her legal studies, Lady Scotland practised family law - not a field noted for high-flyers - as a barrister.
(17) Thurlbeck's barrister said sorry to the Dowler family for the hacking of their daughter Milly's phone at the time when she was missing in 2002, as did Mulcaire.
(18) Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a barrister at Matrix Chambers
(19) It is understood Woodhead, who is also chairman of governors at Southbank, has commissioned a barrister to examine how Vahey came to be employed at the school, where annual fees are as much as £25,000.
(20) Criminal barristers will be driven from self-employment to work in-house.
Solicitor
Definition:
(n.) One who solicits.
(n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney.
(n.) The law officer of a city, town, department, or government; as, the city solicitor; the solicitor of the treasury.
Example Sentences:
(1) Defendants on legal aid will no longer be able to choose their solicitor.
(2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(3) A defence solicitor, Mike Schwarz from Bindmans, said his clients would be appealing to the high court.
(4) Chambers' solicitor, David Allen Green, director of media at Preiskel and Co, welcomed the guidelines as "a step forward".
(5) That police sources were making such claims was confirmed by Taylor's solicitor, who told MPs that a named police sergeant had told him that 6,000 people may have had their phones hacked into.
(6) But she did back moves advocated by the Solicitor-General, Oliver Heald, to place a duty on parents to protect their children and make it illegal to permit their daughters to be mutilated.
(7) As Public Interest Lawyers , the rather inspiring firm of solicitors that took on the test case said: "You should not believe the DWP when it says that the judgment makes no difference.
(8) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.
(9) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
(10) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
(11) RBS says Green & Co is the "practising name of solicitors employed by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group", while Lloyds says SCM is "part of the in-house litigation department of Lloyds Banking Group ".
(12) Its submissions to the consultation, which it forced the MoJ to rerun, states: “There will certainly be plenty of redundancies among qualified solicitors … Given the rates of pay under the new scheme, firms will not be recruiting qualified solicitors but unqualified paralegals.” Nicola Hill, president of the LCCSA, said: “We’re seeing the effect of a policy which puts the cost of justice above its value.
(13) Austin's solicitors, Christian Khan, say their client's case was hampered by highly prejudicial findings by the judge in that case, Mr Justice Tugendhat.
(14) Margaret Finch and Sean Mcloughlin Directors, TRP solicitors, Birmingham
(15) Solicitors, conveyancers and mortgage lenders are reporting a rush to complete house purchases before the reintroduction of stamp duty on properties costing less than £175,000 on 1 January.
(16) Hockey made the order after receiving advice from the government solicitor.
(17) Coulson, who is now David Cameron's communications director, voluntarily attended a meeting with the Metropolitan police at a solicitor's office last Thursday, 4 November.
(18) Carole Berry, of Rollingsons Solicitors, said: "I had a simultaneous exchange of contracts on the 23 December to make sure the deal went through in time.
(19) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
(20) If there is justice for Mark some of this sadness will end.” The family’s solicitor, Cyrilia Davies Knight, from Birnberg Peirce solicitors, said: “There are serious questions about whether this highly trained police officer, who shot Mark in broad daylight from an unobstructed view a few metres away from him, made a mistake that was reasonable and lawful.” She added: “A death of this kind is the cause of uniquely intense public concern as demonstrated by the disturbances after Mark’s death.