barrister
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In mitigation, barrister Edward Butler said the defendant "will never stop being sorry".
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026
The thoroughness with which Callanan, an Irish barrister by profession, treats these travails is the most attractive feature of his book.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
"Prisoners on life sentences know they are unlikely to be released for a significant period, indeed they often have very little to come out to," criminal barrister Kama Melly KC explains.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
About an hour after that exchange, Ashby asked to speak to his barrister, and admitted his guilt.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
I learned an eclectic smattering of Commonwealth law from a traveling barrister too drunk or too pompous to realize he was lecturing an eight-year-old.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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