Senior Counsel en · NOUN
Etymology
From senior + counsel.
Meanings
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(Hong-Kong, Ireland, qualifier:Commonwealth outside of the realm) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer).
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.
2013, Peter Quinn, “Becoming a Target”, in The Outsider, Lucan, Dublin: Irish Sports Publishing, →ISBN, page 187: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.
2016, Alex Eliseev, chapter 28, in Cold Case Confession: Unravelling the Betty Ketani Murder, Johannesburg: Pan Macmillan South Africa, →ISBN, page 149:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Counsels | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| SC | Abbr=Yes | lexicographic | |
| Senior Counsel | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
Queen's Counsel · King's Counsel · take silk
Translations (2)
cmn 資深大律師 /资深大律师 (a barrister) · cmn 高級律師 /高级律师 (a barrister)