barrister
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—barristerial /bar'euh stear"ee euhl/, adj.
/bar"euh steuhr/, n. Law.
1. (in
England) a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts. Cf.
solicitor (
def. 4).
2. Informal. any lawyer.
[1535-45; deriv. of BAR1, perh. after obs. legister lawyer or MINISTER]
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One of two types of practicing lawyers in Britain (the other is the
solicitor).
Barristers engage in advocacy (trial work), and only they may argue cases before a high court. A barrister must be a member of one of the four
Inns of Court. In Canada, all lawyers are both barristers and solicitors, though individual lawyers may describe themselves as one or the other. In Scotland trial lawyers are called advocates.
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▪ English law
one of the two types of practicing lawyers in England, the other being the solicitor. In general, barristers engage in advocacy (trial work) and solicitors in office work, but there is a considerable overlap in their functions. The solicitor, for example, may appear as an advocate in the lower courts, whereas barristers are often called upon to give opinions or to draft documents.
Only barristers may appear as advocates before the High Court; they are known collectively as the bar, and it is from their ranks that the most important judicial appointments are made. To be a barrister it is necessary to be a member of one of the four
Inns of Court (
q.v.). A prospective barrister must pass a series of examinations established for the inns by the Council of Legal Education and must satisfy certain traditional requirements such as eating a certain number of dinners at the respective inn. In addition, the inns still stress the pupillage system, whereby a student or a young barrister reads with a practicing barrister for not less than a year.
The General Council of the Bar sets standards for the bar and acts in matters of general concern to the profession. A barrister is required to accept any case for a proper professional fee, for example, regardless of his personal feelings, except when there are circumstances of conflicting interests of clients. Furthermore, if a barrister does not receive payment for his work, he may not take action in court to obtain it. Barristers cannot form partnerships with other barristers or with solicitors nor can they carry on any other profession or business. Disciplinary power used to be in the hands of the governing body of each inn, the benchers (judges of the High Court or barristers), but this power was delegated to the Senate of the four Inns of Court set up in 1966.
See also solicitor.
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