QUEEN'S COUNSEL Definition & Meaning

Queen's Counsel

noun

King's Counsel.

Queen's Counsel

noun

(in England when the sovereign is female) a barrister or advocate appointed Counsel to the Crown on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor, entitled to sit within the bar of the court and to wear a silk gown Also called (when the sovereign is male)King's Counsel

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Queen's Counsel¹

First recorded in 1855–60

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In 2019, he became the first Bangladeshi-born criminal barrister ever to be appointed Queen's Counsel.

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Barristers are updating their business cards from Queen’s Counsel to King’s, but no one needs a fresh appointment at the bar.

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Finally, barristers and solicitors who have been appointed by the monarch to be Queen's Counsel will now be known as King's Counsel with immediate effect.

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Nneka Akudolu was told she had little chance of becoming a barrister after getting pregnant in her second year of university, now she's a Queen's Counsel recognised for her excellence.

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Queen’s Counsel barrister Nick Vineall, representing the Maduro-backed central bank, said that rather than being “fatal” to his side’s case, the UK foreign secretary’s statement had instead supported it.

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