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What is a barrister?

What is a barrister? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law, chiefly Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A lawyer with the right to speak and argue as an advocate in higher lawcourts.
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He was sentenced for breaching his order and inflicting actual bodily harm on his barrister.
His father was an Oxford man who was called to the bar, but instead of becoming a barrister went into business.
The doctor is then accredited with the General Medical Council, much as the pupil barrister is with the Bar Council.
Defence barrister David Taylor said he did it because he had drunk ten to 12 pints, and several alcopops with vodka.
Councillors even want to bung a barrister a few grand to state their case at the public inquiry.
The barrister acting for the community council is now objecting to the inspector's decision.

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