Vocabulary Word
Word: barrister
Definition: counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law; CF. bar
Definition: counselor-at-law or lawyer in the higher court of law; CF. bar
Sentences Containing 'barrister'
Perhaps a little angry with himself, as well as with the barrister, Mr. Lorry bustled into the chair, and was carried off to Tellson's.
The barrister was keen enough to divine that the banker would not have gone so far in his expression of opinion on any less solid ground than moral certainty.
Later still comes Alexander Mackay, of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, with a better digestion, and no catfish dinner aboard, and feels as follows`The Mississippi!
Only a barrister is eligible for such preferments; and Mr. Micawber could not be a barrister, without being entered at an inn of court as a student, for five years.'
In the course of my stumbling upstairs, I fancied I heard a pleasant sound of laughter; and not the laughter of an attorney or barrister, or attorney's clerk or barrister's clerk, but of two or three merry girls.
Richard Pankhurst, barrister, husband of Emmeline Pankhurst and father to Adela Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst and Sylvia Pankhurst is buried alongside his parents in Brooklands cemetery.
Originally from Britain, Fergus Hume worked as a barrister's clerk in Melbourne, Australia at the time of the book's first publication.
Wilson was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 1951.
Once he graduated from Oxford he became a barrister and returned to practise law in Penang—his firm commenced in 1954, was at one time known as Chang and Vello.
The MCP was founded in 1959 by Orton Chirwa, Nyasaland's first African barrister soon after his release from Gwelo prison, and other NAC leaders Including Aleke Banda, S. Kamwendo.
He practised as a barrister on the Home Circuit.
Lennox-Boyd was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Bedfordshire in 1931 (at the age of 26), and was admitted to Inner Temple, as a barrister in 1941.
Read was admitted into the bar in 1845.He then began a law practice which became successful.In 1845 he served as Barrister at Law.
1488 – 30 April 1544), was an English barrister and judge who served as Lord Chancellor of England from 1533 to 1544.
He was qualified as an Anglican priest, and worked also as a librarian, barrister and editor.
After being admitted to the Barrister's Society of New Brunswick in September 1975, Lockyer practiced law with the Moncton law firm of Stewart Cooper.
She was born in Kensington, London, one of three children of a barrister, Arthur Frederick Andrew Cole (1883–1968), and his wife, Margaret Henrietta, born Gaselee (1882–1971).
After receiving his elementary education at Ayr, he studied at King's College School and the Middle Temple, London, with thoughts, apparently, of being an English barrister.
1776), of the Middle Temple, was a barrister-at-law.
Educated at Charterhouse School, and then Balliol College, Oxford, he graduated in Philosophy and Ancient History, qualified as a barrister in 1954 and became a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1965.
His brother Edward Faulks, Baron Faulks QC was a barrister but become a Conservative Government Minister in January 2014 in the Ministry of Justice.
Subsequently she practised as a barrister and solicitor at the Adelaide law firm Mangan, Ey Bishop, where she was a partner.
Hunter studied at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School to become a barrister and lawyer.
He then retired from politics and continued practising as a barrister.
After his business venture failed, Binns became a barrister on the island, acquired land there and also became a land agent for other land owners.
Woolf had read books about lawyers and wanted to be a barrister.
Woolf chose to be a barrister in 1955 and started working on the Oxford circuit.
By profession, Westoby was a Barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
He has a LLB degree and is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor, working as a lawyer before entering politics.
He qualified as a barrister, called to the bar by Middle Temple.
Campbell was a barrister, and ran a practice in Winnipeg.
The first Secretary to the Commissioners was Robert Wilfred Skeffington Lutwidge, a barrister and uncle of Lewis Carroll.
He was educated at Upper Canada College, became a barrister in 1849, and was created a Queen's Counsel in 1863.
Johnson was a barrister and a university tutor and lecturer before entering politics.
He was called to the English Bar (Inner Temple) in 1837 and subsequently practised in the Northern circuit acting as a reporting barrister in the Common Pleas Division.
Reeves developed a significant legal practice as a barrister in Darwin in the 1990s, and became increasingly distant from the Labor Party.
He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and became a barrister and lawyer by career.
Andrew Walker (born 1968) is an English barrister and coroner for Northern District of Greater London.
In 1805, Archibald was admitted to practice as an attorney and barrister.
He returned to Britain, resuming his practice as a barrister, and in 1932 was appointed Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, a position he held for five years.
On 8 August 1633, Calvert was admitted to Gray's Inn as a barrister.
He became a barrister in November 1982, following several years as a solicitor with Mallesons.
Levi was a barrister and his words give his opinion of the legal situation, one which was prevalent at the time.
In 1968, Williams started work as a barrister.
For several centuries, education at one of the Inns of Chancery was the first step towards becoming a barrister.
He became a barrister and solicitor in 1896, partnering William Bruce in the firm that was to become Arthur Robinson Co.
Cameron was born in Battersea, London, of Scottish parentage; his father, William Ernest Cameron, was a barrister who wrote novels under the pseudonym Mark Allerton.
He practised as a barrister for 10 years.
Charles Phillips (1787?-1859) was an Irish barrister and writer.
George Alfred Lawrence (25 March 1827 – 23 September 1876) was a British novelist and barrister.
