junior counsel

noun

, English Law.

a body of barristers who are lower in rank than the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel, and who plead outside the bar in the court.
a member of this body of barristers.

Mr. W. Erskine, junior counsel for the prisoner, proceeded to open the defence.

Mr. Kinlock, junior counsel for the prisoner, arose for the defence.

I was present at your first wedding ten years ago, and—as a junior counsel—I helped to divorce you a few months after.

He would be obliged by Mr. Winter retaining Mr. Seymour Rereworth as his junior counsel.

There had been a partnership; he was junior counsel, and some of the clients preferred the young, broad-minded man.

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