barrister
noun
bar·ris·ter
ˈber-ə-stər 
ˈba-rə-
: a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor
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Santiago calls to them, before donning a barrister’s wig and pulling the hoods off of a bewildered Madeleine and Claudia and beat-and-bloody Louis.
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 16 June 2024
Perth barrister Seamus Rafferty SC represented Yung Filly in Perth Magistrates Court and applied for bail on the rapper’s behalf, the BBC reported.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
The 2013 Respect at Work Review, led by employment law barrister Dinah Rose, resulted in a deluge of allegations about BBC power players from nearly 1,000 staff.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
The realisation that women’s football isn’t a utopia for Black football fans and players became clear when Eniola Aluko, a Nigerian footballer and broadcaster, filed a report with an independent barrister against former England coach Mark Sampson for anti-Black discrimination.
—Beauty Dhlamini, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 16 June 2024
Perth barrister Seamus Rafferty SC represented Yung Filly in Perth Magistrates Court and applied for bail on the rapper’s behalf, the BBC reported.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
The 2013 Respect at Work Review, led by employment law barrister Dinah Rose, resulted in a deluge of allegations about BBC power players from nearly 1,000 staff.
—Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
The realisation that women’s football isn’t a utopia for Black football fans and players became clear when Eniola Aluko, a Nigerian footballer and broadcaster, filed a report with an independent barrister against former England coach Mark Sampson for anti-Black discrimination.
—Beauty Dhlamini, refinery29.com, 12 July 2024
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barrister
noun
bar·ris·ter
ˈbar-ə-stər
1
: a lawyer who argues cases before a British court
especially
: one who is allowed to argue before a British high court compare solicitor
Note: Many countries in the Commonwealth (as England and Australia) and the Republic of Ireland divide the legal profession into barristers and solicitors. In Canada, every lawyer is both a barrister and a solicitor, although individual lawyers may describe themselves as one or the other. Scotland uses the term advocate to refer to lawyers allowed to argue cases in its courts.
2
: lawyer
Etymology
Middle English barrester, from barre bar + -ster (as in legister lawyer)
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