counsel for the defence

I was, of course, asked the same question by the police and by the counsel for the defence.

Counsel for the defence addressed the jury and the judge summed up.

Would you like to hear counsel for the defence?"

We can't prove that, can we, counsel for the defence?

Counsel for the defence presents the case for the accused.

Counsel for the defence argued that action on the case did not lie, because detinue lay.

For the benefit of junior counsel for the defence.

Is he setting himself up as the counsel for the defence of the Turkish authorities and providing it with just such an alibi?

The counsel for the defence called this witness "a liar, nothing more than a conceited fantasist."

Accordingly, the defendants were granted full legal representation, and Sleeman acted as senior counsel for the defence.

However, during his closing speech, counsel for the defence suggested that all the appellant intended to do was frighten the victim and no more.

Counsel for the defence argued that the purpose of the 1797 Act was to target mutiny and sedition, to break allegiance to the King.

But the judge still looked at him with bright and steady eyes of interest; and the counsel for the defence went on with his questions unperturbed.

This Goebel claim was then investigated by the leading counsel for the defence, Mr. Curtis.

Julie Walters as Emma Watts, QC, counsel for the defence.

Dallas's most notable accomplishment, perhaps, was to come in 1787, when he served as junior counsel for the defence in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings.

He was leading counsel for the defence in the celebrated murder trial of Sidney Harry Fox, but was unable to secure an acquittal.

While Mancini was in prison, his solicitor phoned Birkett and asked him to work as counsel for the defence, which Birkett agreed to do.

Sir Wilson was leaving the witness-box, after a few final particulars to which there were many other witnesses, when the counsel for the defence sprang up and stopped him.

It was four weary days before this jury was made up, but when it was finally complete, it did great credit to the counsel for the defence.

At the trial, counsel for the defence claimed that this was no ordinary crime, telling the court, "they hoped to find material they could take to Special Branch".

He was junior counsel for the defence in the trial of John Christie, accused of murdering his wife Ethel at 10 Rillington Place.

But after taking Silk in 1966 he ventured into criminal law, and became almost the obligatory counsel for the defence in cases where public morals seemed to be at stake.

Counsel for the Defence: the Bernard Cohn Memorial Lectures in Criminal Law Irwin Law, 2005.

More successfully, he was the Counsel for the Defence in the trial for obscenity of the publishers of Lady Chatterley's Lover in 1960.