King's Counsel
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English
Etymology
Noun
King's Counsel (plural King's Counsel or King's Counsels, abbreviation KC)
- (UK, Canada, New Zealand, occasionally Australia) An honorific status officially conferred on senior or meritorious barristers (and occasionally other kinds of lawyer) during the reign of a king.
- 1994, Robert Rhodes James, “‘A Morbid Misery’”, in Henry Wellcome, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 292:
- When the case eventually came to court in December 1903, Wellcome’s team, headed by Moulton, contained three King’s Counsel; they had marshalled seventy-two witnesses and intimated that they could produce as many again.
- 2011, Martin Vander Weyer, “ Wilful Neglect?”, in Fortune’s Spear: The Story of the Blue-Blooded Rogue Behind the Most Notorious City Scandal of the 1920s, London: Elliott and Thompson Limited, →ISBN, page 256:
- Arrayed in front of him was a very expensive line-up of London’s best legal brains. Each director had his own team of two, and in some cases three, defence barristers. Including two King’s Counsels who represented the Official Receiver, there were a dozen silks in court.
- (UK, historical) A barrister or advocate appointed by the Crown during the reign of a king.
Usage notes
- During the reign of a queen, the position is styled Queen's Counsel (QC).
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Translations
a barrister
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an honorific status
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