How To Use Barrister In A Sentence

Young barristers undertaking publicly funded work frequently earn very little in their first years. Times, Sunday Times
A family law barrister close to the Crikey crew advises that many men attempt to talk down their earning capacity when they are negotiating settlements with former wives.
The total includes the cost of barristers and MoD lawyers. The Sun
The defence barrister, David Lane, then stood up to offer some brief remarks in mitigation.
However, a solicitor is unlikely to be able to concentrate on advocacy as a barrister can.

Why did the defence barrister do it that way? Times, Sunday Times
There may also be differences in premiums for a publican and a landlord, or a barrister and lawyer. Times, Sunday Times
There will be pressure on junior family barristers to take on more complex work than they are ready for. Times, Sunday Times
The barrister acting for the community council is now objecting to the inspector's decision.
He was suspended from working for a year and avoided a jail term after his barrister pleaded that his career was in ruins. Times, Sunday Times
The barristers, or advocates, wear the garb they would wear in courts in their own homeland.
a male secretary/nurse/model or a woman/female doctor/barrister/driver. However this is now not usually used unless you need to emphasize which sex the person is, or it is still unusual for the job to be done by a man/woman:My daughter prefers to see a woman doctor.
Lunchtime is the busiest with Temple barristers and solicitors grabbing a quick bite and drink before a dash back to the courts. Times, Sunday Times
The claimant, who had been involved in bitter and protracted partnership disputes relating to the firm of solicitors of which he had formally been a partner, sued the defendant barrister for alleged negligence.
Ministers released the figures days before barristers and solicitors staged their first walkout in protest at cuts to fees. Times, Sunday Times
A barrister must have the confidence of the Bench.
Legation at Teheran; Bill "devilled" for a famous barrister; Lionel wore her Majesty's livery. The Hill A Romance of Friendship
He is what they call a barrister, with nothing to do. Our Mutual Friend
This is called the Bar table, and on this side the solicitors who instruct the barristers and prepare their work, they sit there.
A trained barrister, he made sure that laws were passed to prevent the misuse of mineral resources for private gain.
Britain's top judges and barristers traditionally wear wigs in their court appearances.
Earnings potential is still a higher draw for would-be solicitors than for barristers. Times, Sunday Times
The story is told of the female barrister in court trying to open her case. Times, Sunday Times
Many distinguished judges and barristers presided there.
Solicitors may be appointed to positions in industry, and remarks made previously in relation to barristers apply equally to solicitors.
Fellow barristers and judges encouraged him to apply. Times, Sunday Times
So both barristers and judges have to be very careful that they deal with juries in a way that helps them to deal with the subject matter.
The dissentients agreed in this construction to the extent that they determined that the position of the barrister was solely governed by section 10.
The defence was to be entrusted to the well-practised but now aged hands of that most experienced practitioner Mr Chaffanbrass, than whom no barrister living or dead ever rescued more culprits from the fangs of the law. Phineas Redux
Councillors even want to bung a barrister a few grand to state their case at the public inquiry.
He quoted Lord Denning that in the dictionary for example the word barrister comes directly after bankrupt and just before bastard. Chinalyst - China blogs in English
The two sides of the profession, barristers and solicitors, continue to exist, and both have expanded numerically.
The relationship came to light when a mysterious note was handed to a barrister at an earlier hearing.
The barrister entirely renounce his right to object to a juror.
The allegation ignores the content of the interviews conducted with barristers and judges. Times, Sunday Times
Lunchtime is the busiest with Temple barristers and solicitors grabbing a quick bite and drink before a dash back to the courts. Times, Sunday Times
A barrister launched a blistering attack on an anti-social behaviour order imposed by magistrates on Thursday.
And then the barrister gets into court and shows off. Times, Sunday Times
Cuts to legal aid may have dissuaded some barristers' chambers from recruiting, but the bigger problem has been the economic downturn. Times, Sunday Times
Should you be able to sue barristers and solicitors who are negligent in acting for you in a legal case?
About 64 young solicitors and barristers have taken part. Times, Sunday Times
a male secretary/nurse/model or a woman/female doctor/barrister/driver. However this is now not usually used unless you need to emphasize which sex the person is, or it is still unusual for the job to be done by a man/woman:My daughter prefers to see a woman doctor.
The barrister represented to the court that the defendant was mentally unstable.
Leading commercial barristers Michael Cush SC and Bill Shipsey SC have been retained to act for the plaintiffs in the case.
A god-daughter told me of how jolly he made her girlhood, although her father worried about his fellow barrister's habit of fast driving.
In trials with multiple defendants there may be restrictions on the number of defence barristers who could question a witness. Times, Sunday Times
Judges are solely to blame for any perceived and widespread barristerial failings. Times, Sunday Times
They're barristers' chambers where, effectively, barristers work.
Cuts to legal aid may have dissuaded some barristers' chambers from recruiting, but the bigger problem has been the economic downturn. Times, Sunday Times
Advice deserts are already appearing: one barrister recently was instructed by a mother alleging serious domestic violence. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, Mr Ross, now in his seventies, is still at his desk, working as a barrister taking briefs.
He was a barrister, he was offered a brief.
We say that the solicitor was engaged and then briefed a barrister.
While Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was an attorney by trade, he doffed his barrister modus operandi for that of partial, but reasoned, advocate. Michael Huyghue: NFL Labor Dispute: First Thing We Do Is Get Rid of All the Lawyers
The barrister added another issue the defence could well raise was that of non-insane automatism, a condition brought about ‘as a result of the combination of drink and drugs he consumed.’
The defence barrister, on the other hand, was shrewd and devastatingly persuasive. Times, Sunday Times
To show that it was a different kind of hearing, the judge and barristers took off their wigs, but kept on their court robes.
His review of the court-martial proceedings may involve an assessment of the qualities of the prosecuting and defending barristers.
Such amusements belong to the city, where a lady, her face a glory of powder, Sidonian lips, a tower of hair woven with pearls, earrings like stars, can shake her litter with a fit of laughter at the sight of a humpback swinging along on crutches, where mothers, barristers, doctors gasp with pleasure as two dwarves hack themselves to a butchered ruin in the Circus. A favorite quote | clusterflock
The spoken word convinces the utterer; but a man can act against his own bad judgment without warping it, and contrive to win in a bad cause without maintaining that it is a good one, like the barrister. Eve and David
Mr. Horace Frank Lester, late of Oxford University, afterwards barrister-at-law, author and journalist of the first rank, but at that time unknown to _Punch_, first appeared on January 5th, 1878, with a slashing satire on busybody amateur statesmen which greatly tickled Tom The History of "Punch"
It is to be also remembered that female attorneys-at-law were unknown in England, and a proposition that a woman should enter the courts of Westminster Hall in that capacity, or as a barrister, would have created hardly less astonishment than one that she should ascend the bench of Bishops, or be elected to a seat in the House of Commons. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
Most solicitors and barristers may think this has little to do with them. Times, Sunday Times
In the past two years it has retained all its trainee solicitors and pupil barristers. Times, Sunday Times
The barrister represented to the court that the defendant was mentally unstable.
The augural ceremony will held at 1p. m and Barrister Dr. Shahida Jameel will be chief guest of the function. According to the notification of the Education Department Punjab, all
They chose a famous barrister to represent them in court.
We are only around the corner from the crown court so we get judges and barristers in as well as families of defendants. The Sun
Lord Mansfield whenever a barrister pronounced a Latin word with a false quantity. A Book About Lawyers
‘It is a world in which refuse collectors cosy up to barristers, split along moral lines rather than social ones’.
The barrister represented to the court that the defendant was mentally unstable.
A barrister tells a cautionary tale from Australia, on the dangers of creating a crime of incitement to religious hatred.
The negative publicity washes off Neil, who says he can use his barrister's mind to objectify the slurs.
Coun Williams employed a legal team and has now received a written opinion from his barrister stating Doncaster Council must act.
Judging is different from lawyering, but common law judges are not trained separately from lawyers; they are barristers one day and judges the next.
Some of us are schoolmasters or college tutors; some of us are doctors who failed to draw patients; some of us are disfrocked parsons; a vast proportion are briefless barristers.
If York's soldiers wish to really shine on the parade ground, they should take lessons from the barristers and solicitors' clerks at York Crown Court.
A former Conservative councillor who pretended to be a barrister to gain social status and well-paid jobs wept in court as she was spared jail. Times, Sunday Times
‘It is a world in which refuse collectors cosy up to barristers, split along moral lines rather than social ones’.
a male secretary/nurse/model or a woman/female doctor/barrister/driver. However this is now not usually used unless you need to emphasize which sex the person is, or it is still unusual for the job to be done by a man/woman:My daughter prefers to see a woman doctor.
When he - a briefless barrister - stepped ashore in 1839, Melbourne was little more than a huddle of huts.
His good-natured humour and seemingly limitless fund of anecdotes was much admired by other barristers and by the Bench. Times, Sunday Times
The danger now of instructing inexperienced barristers in complex serious cases could manifest itself in injustices, and indeed the system crumbling into disarray. Times, Sunday Times
The Law Almanac used to actually contain a list of non-practising barristers, as I recollect.
This places financial constraints on qualification as a barrister which do not exist for intending solicitors.
When she married Ronald Rougier and had a son of her own, she carried on as the head of this household as well, becoming the main breadwinner while her husband stuttered through an early and unsuccessful career as a mining engineer and then changed direction completely to train as a barrister. On Georgette Heyer « Tales from the Reading Room
The bewigged barristers look almost out of place at their modern light oak benches beneath suspended lighting. Times, Sunday Times
After soe many yeares studdy and being thus Entred they are Called to ye barr – yt is to plead as Councellors and Barristers in these Courts, and out of such that have been thus Barristers many yeares they Commence serjeants, and are made in this manner the first day of a terme. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
The higher professional category includes chemists, vets, dentists and barristers.
Responding to criticism about the treatment of the deportees, the barrister for the State said that an interpreter and doctor had been on board the aircraft.
`Hard luck, John," said his fellow barrister, the prosecuting counsel. DOUBLE DECEIT
Mr McDowell's comments come as the Competition Authority continues to investigate restrictive practices in the profession with a particular focus on perceived uncompetitive practices among barristers.
Children of unskilled manual workers are twice as likely to have serious illnesses as the children of barristers.
Iswar Chandra, the brilliant young barrister-at-law had discoursed to a philanthropic peeress upon the social future of his native land, whilst an admiring circle of auditors hung upon his words. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
He preferred the laid-back life of a briefless barrister.
They chose a famous barrister to represent them in court.
There is no reason to fear a flood of negligence suits against barristers.
Mr. Henry Schloesser, barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, [Footnote: In his pamphlet published by the Women's Social and Political Union.] very explicitly explains how they affect women. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
The change would also ensure that solicitors and barristers are paid the same for the same work. Times, Sunday Times
The bank account should be reconciled with the barrister's receipts book.
Some will go down the route of setting up companies to bid for work and compete with other barristers or solicitors. Times, Sunday Times
Cornell, a lean, beaky charmer of a boss, would have made an amiable barrister.
[Lord Justice BANKS recently referred to the possible establishment of a Law Courts '_crêche_, where the female barrister might leave her young while engaged in forensic duties.] _From "The Law Times" of 192 --. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919
So likening you to one of them - as opposed to a "barrister" - could presumably be argued to be incapable of carrying a defamatory meaning. My First 'Hate' Email: A 'Chiropractic Doctor' Writes
Perhaps what would be worse than a barrister liking his or her client would be disliking the client, especially when the accused is charged with morally repugnant crimes.
Helen McCrory, plays his partner Rose Fitzgerald, a bolshy barrister who begins the series heavily pregnant with Guthrie's child.
Scientists eventually must deal with animism, it's now too important to be left to clerics and barristers.
After fifteen years as a barrister, she took silk.
In court they were both represented by a barrister and lawyer and required the services of an Arabic interpreter throughout. The Sun
To see junior barristers in action, visits to district or circuit courts are a good idea.
They can explain how the criminal justice system works and provide details of experienced barristers and solicitors. The Sun
She is a barrister, always waiting to demolish all arguments. Times, Sunday Times
A team of barristers, solicitors and law students will join protesters to keep a watch on officers' conduct. Times, Sunday Times
This seems to have been his response to the creeping erosion of the square's residential character primarily by the spread of barristers' chambers.
A further 50 questionnaires were sent to commercial and construction barristers.
What of earnings as a newly qualified barrister or solicitor? Times, Sunday Times
They chose a famous barrister to represent them in court.
There was Kyle Leyden, a young barrister about to embark on the two-year apprenticeship known as devilling.
He belonged to a professional family (his father was a barrister) and, as an army officer, he was aide-de-camp to a maharajah.
Some of the headsets have tiny, curled British barristers' wigs perched on top of them.
The Bar Council last week announced that barristers could now take briefs directly from members of the public.
Many young, bright and keen barristers would deeply resent the suggestion that they were incapable of doing the work for which their elders and betters are being so handsomely paid.
The former barrister suffers badly from nerves. Times, Sunday Times
But the fact that the generality of barrister pupils have been unpaid, not just in the distant past but also in modern times, is in our view of significance in determining whether a relationship of or equivalent to apprenticeship exists.
The organisation is responsible for education and training in pupillage, and continuing education for barristers.
How does that fit in with the liability of, say, a solicitor for giving advice, or a barrister for giving chambers opinions?
Inside, barristers interview their clients in the waiting area, with the handful of consultation rooms invariably booked up. Times, Sunday Times
She took notes for him when he appeared as a barrister at court in Exeter. Times, Sunday Times
The barrister handed in references from Holland's employers, mother and a family friend.
In Pickwick Papers we read about a certain barrister who was described as a promising young man of about forty. The Newsprint Riddle
Denison, a barrister, was an amateur horologist who had made a fortune in the railway boom. Times, Sunday Times
The photo had been altered so that between the doctors peering down at the operation is a wigged and gowned barrister.
The defendants are represented by a defence team of three barristers and two solicitors.
The Law Commission's work on this topic has taken over 20 years and has massive support amongst judges, magistrates, the police and solicitors and barristers.
Another two dozen barristers and solicitors, chosen for their expertise in commercial law, also earned substantial fees in a case which became known in the inns of court as a beanfeast.
Defence barrister David Taylor said he did it because he had drunk ten to 12 pints, and several alcopops with vodka.
In 50 years time barristers will be putting in submissions in this Court that refer to our decision as the S134 obiter.
Though, from my experience as a barrister, courtroom procedures are often misrepresented for dramatic effect. Times, Sunday Times
However, some key terms remain from Law French, including the following: attorney, one appointed to act for another — now characterized as either: attorney-at-law — see lawyer, solicitor, barrister or civil law notary attorney-in-fact — see power of attorney. The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology
a male secretary/nurse/model or a woman/female doctor/barrister/driver. However this is now not usually used unless you need to emphasize which sex the person is, or it is still unusual for the job to be done by a man/woman:My daughter prefers to see a woman doctor.
Rose dismantled some but not all the barriers still placed before women barristers. The Times Literary Supplement
It will be necessary to explain to the reader that John was no other than John Perkins, Esquire, of the Middle Temple, barrister-at-law, and that Miss Lucy was the daughter of the late The Bedford-Row Conspiracy
His resonant voice and polished demeanour fitted him for roles as a barrister, judge, headmaster and doctor. Times, Sunday Times
First line: "MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE - June 11: Local barrister Nicholas Ward was arrested yesterday for releasing more than 100 live lobsters into the indoor pool at the mayor's mansion in Minneapolis. Archive 2008-06-01
As I'd never (to my knowledge) supped with the devil, I was thrilled to find myself in the company of a junior barrister who's devilling at the moment.
Solicitors may be appointed to positions in industry, and remarks made previously in relation to barristers apply equally to solicitors.
[2] Thomas Christopher, 1789-1827, 3rd son of the above, afterwards a barrister-at-law. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1
The defendant leant forward and spoke to his barrister, sotto voce.
He is the barrister who will appear for the defence.
Only barristers-in-training study in one of the four Inns of Court in London, which are crosses between learned societies and choosy guilds.
And last night he followed in his mother 's footsteps as he was made an honorary barrister. The Sun
What barrister, young or old, cannot recall mirthful eyes that, with quick shyness, have turned away from his momentary notice, as in answer to the rustling of silk, or stirred by sympathetic consciousness of women's noiseless presence, he has raised his face from a volume of reports, and seen two or three timorous girls peering through the golden haze of a A Book About Lawyers
Some of them will be postmen, some barmen, some barristers, some policemen, some teachers, some docters and some will probably be claiming government benefit. Too many of us treat young white women as trash | Barbara Ellen
Three decades later and Constance, by now a barrister, repaid the favour by successfully acting for the school when it mutated into a hotel and sought a liquor licence.
He makes reference to the importance of experienced barristers being instructed in complex cases. Times, Sunday Times
He paid tribute to his officers, the Crown Prosecution Service and their barristers for the way they had handled a ‘very sensitive and difficult investigation’.
� He is a barrister-at-law and practised in London from 1965 to 1966. Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Japan - Media release - Minister for Foreign Affairs
So if a barrister's daily rate was £2,500 in London, it would be £3,000 in Bermuda.
However, a solicitor is unlikely to be able to concentrate on advocacy as a barrister can.
Earlier in the week she had twice stormed out after refusing to answer questions put by defence barrister Courtenay Griffiths QC.
I am horrified that thousands of pounds of taxpayer's money is being spent employing solicitors and barristers who are incompetent.
Rarely does an employer recoup the costs of paying a solicitor and barrister. Times, Sunday Times
At least three barristers and two judges have been attacked by defendants in recent years. Times, Sunday Times
If a person is a pupil working for a barrister, he or she is a danger to shipping.
So what is it about politics that attracts so many solicitors and barristers?
Too many people see barristers as greedy fat cats who are only in it for themselves. Times, Sunday Times
But unlike the solicitors he battles and the barristers he instructs, he does not come from a world used to nice Norfolk houses. Times, Sunday Times
Five years later, at the age of forty-four, he retrained as a barrister and, from 1917, practised at the parliamentary bar.
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 ... Define That Term #207
There were those controlled by instructions, for example, the briefless barrister recruited for the work.
Or that one needs to pay a solicitor as well as a barrister to go through a simple trial?
[Lord Justice BANKS recently referred to the possible establishment of a Law Courts '_crêche_, where the female barrister might leave her young while engaged in forensic duties.] _From "The Law Times" of 192 --. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919
As a defence barrister said, joint enterprise is the law but not natural justice. Times, Sunday Times
Too many people see barristers as greedy fat cats who are only in it for themselves. Times, Sunday Times
The change would also ensure that solicitors and barristers are paid the same for the same work. Times, Sunday Times
He spoke to victims of abuse, he spoke to barristers and he read widely. Times, Sunday Times
You join a barrister for two six-month spells of practical experience.
The barrister takes on a libel suit against a publisher. The Sun
He built up a career as a planning barrister and maintained an active interest in the political scene.
His barrister said he was naive and unworldly and had his first sexual experience when he was 34.
The prisoner leapt from the dock, jumped over the shoulders of barristers and hurdled the bar where the judge was sitting.
He is a barrister and solicitor of this court, and he carries on the practice of his profession at the City of London.
We contend there is available insurance for barristers and solicitor advocates.
I have been told by the Solicitor / Barrister trying yet again to purge my contempt that my sentence is wildly excessive.
The two sides of the profession, barristers and solicitors, continue to exist, and both have expanded numerically.
Ministers released the figures days before barristers and solicitors staged their first walkout in protest at cuts to fees. Times, Sunday Times
If he had the choice, the Master of the Rolls would favour dressing barristers and judges in an all-embracing continental gown which fastens down the front with Velcro.
There were people being led around by what I imagine were solicitors or junior barristers, the silks moving between courts, of which there appears to be the best part of 100 housed there, courts that is.
His barrister said he had resigned from the school where he was teaching and was now hoping to retrain as a florist.
The incident justifies the inference that the services of junior counsel to senior barristers -- services at the present time termed 'devilling' -- were formerly remunerated with cash payments. A Book About Lawyers
The danger now of instructing inexperienced barristers in complex serious cases could manifest itself in injustices, and indeed the system crumbling into disarray. Times, Sunday Times
She is a barrister, always waiting to demolish all arguments. Times, Sunday Times
Should you be able to sue barristers and solicitors who are negligent in acting for you in a legal case?
She's also married to a supercilious English barrister.
Even after the devilling year, Irish barristers are not guaranteed any income, and many drop out of the profession because of the pressure of growing bank loans.
He makes reference to the importance of experienced barristers being instructed in complex cases. Times, Sunday Times
Aidan Quinn has been imported to take the role of the good barrister and Nurse Hathaway from ER is the barmaid who has a sweet spot for the eejit Doyle.
You could even be advised by the presiding judge to try and sell your efforts to barristers-at-law in any future court appearances and ingratiate yourself with the judiciary.
Defence barristers said they were vulnerable and impressionable young men who had been offered cash to sell the drugs.
The road contains several leading barristers' chambers.

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