Sentence examples for barrister's chambers from inspiring English sources

As to character, there is no hint of unhappiness or rejection in the easeful Blair passage from private school to Oxford to barrister's chambers.

Perhaps for such cases I'd better get on a train to London for a conference at the defence barrister's chambers, as we all did years ago.

Solicitor's clerks enter a barrister's chambers bearing briefs, and Rumpole's bread and butter - a bottle or two of Chateau Thames Embankment.

Now Aluko is back with another one-man show, this time about Tunji Sowande, who left Nigeria to study law in Britain and who in 1968 became the first black head of a major barrister's chambers.

He said it was not just legal aid that was being cut, but the returns system, which ensures another barrister will represent a defendant in need of legal aid when their case is dropped by a different member of that barrister's chambers.

Those aspiring to a career as qualified lawyers will usually need to have taken the foundation legal subjects as part of their law degree before proceeding to vocational training and further training with a law firm or in a barrister's chambers.

Supporters of Allen, who left school at age 14, saw this as the action of an autocratic elitist who "ran his staff as he had controlled junior counsel in his barrister's chamber; they did his bidding, his way, or were forthwith dispensed with".

Another British lawyer, Melanie Gingell, a barrister with Took's Chambers in London, has also been an observer at the Istanbul trial.

His only job outside politics, working as a barrister in Derry Irvine's chambers, involved grander duties, although he did have a rare brush with accounting in the early 1970s when he briefly managed a series of bands.

As he prepared to return home, Hastings was informed that Chartres Biron (one of the barristers who occupied Avory's chambers) had been appointed a Metropolitan Magistrate, which freed up a space in the chambers.

Elizabeth Woodcraft, from Michael Mansfield's chambers, has barrister Frankie Richmond, streetwise, sharp and chaotic, as her main character in two recent books.