(in the UK) a barrister who has not taken silk, i.e. is not a Queen's (or King's) Counsel.
‘There were people being led around by what I imagine were solicitors or junior barristers, the silks moving between courts, of which there appears to be the best part of 100 housed there, courts that is.’
‘I am sure there are a lot of able junior barristers who would be only too happy to look at it.’
‘Do you have any stories you can tell us about your own experience as a junior barrister?’
‘May's in-depth work gives a more accurate picture of the opinions of both prominent and junior barristers in London to the transformations in criminal procedure occurring in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.’
‘To see junior barristers in action, visits to district or circuit courts are a good idea.’
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