Meaning of Senior Counsel | Babel Free

Definitions

An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer).

Hong-Kong, Ireland

Examples

“The two Senior Counsels, who were very familiar with each other, were addressing one another as ‘Mister’, while I was addressing both by their Christian names.”

“He’s a deputy director of public prosecutions, one of only three Senior Counsel in his division, with an office on the sixth floor of the Innes Court building on Pritchard Street in downtown Johannesburg.”

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