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barrister

In the UK, a lawyer qualified by study at the Inns of Court to plead for a client in court. In Scotland such lawyers are called advocates. Barristers also undertake the writing of opinions on the prospects of a case before trial. They act for clients through the intermediary of solicitors. In the USA an attorney may serve the functions of barrister and solicitor.



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August Cohen, a Barrister-at-Law, spoke for British subjects of German, Austrian, and Hungarian Birth when he denounced the sinking of the Lusitania, but lamented that "certain classes of British people have, at the instigation of a small section of the press and a few self-asserting politicians, given expression to this change of feeling .
He obtained his law degree at London University and was a barrister-at-law of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London.
Ian holds a Bachelor of Arts (Industrial Relations), a Diploma of Laws NSW and was admitted as a Barrister-at-Law, Supreme Court of NSW in 1982.
 
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