defence lawyer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdefenceandlawyer
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defence
noun
uk/dɪˈfens/us/dɪˈfens/
the act of protecting someone or something against attack or ...
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lawyer
noun[C]
uk/ˈlɔɪ.ər/us/ˈlɔɪ.jɚ/
someone whose job is to give advice to people about the law and speak for them ...
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(Definition ofdefenceandlawyerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Whilst herdefencelawyerargued that this lack of emotion was evidence of psychosis,18 the jury did not accept this explanation.
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The ability of an accused person to instruct his or her own independentdefencelawyeris the prime safeguard of that principle.
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There is nothing wrong with that if thedefencelawyerbelieves that the jury is out of balance.
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That is all the more true when one bears in mind that the prosecutor could now be a civil service colleague of thedefencelawyer.
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In my experience, one does not always agree with the sheriff, especially if one is adefencelawyer.
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They will be far more reluctant to come forward because it is not solely a matter of the women being faced by adefencelawyer.
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He would have his defence available at the very start, just as he would doubtless have hisdefencelawyeravailable at the very start.
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In all courts there should be adefencelawyeravailable to any defendant wanting to avail himself of his services.
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It is right that the jury should know that, especially as thedefencelawyerknows it.
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Such defendants should have a jury trial, an independent judge, the ability to choose adefencelawyerand a public hearing.
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One occurs when adefencelawyeris asked to plead innocence of a crime to which the defendant has unambiguously confessed to the lawyer.
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There was nodefencelawyerand no independent jury, and there were no independent witnesses.
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Hisdefencelawyerclaimed that conditions were so bad that he was not responsible for his actions.
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Thedefencelawyerhas submitted appeals on behalf of all five men, but no date has yet been set for the hearings.
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I was not sure whether there was complaint that one was clever or that one was adefencelawyer.
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Anydefencelawyerwould have had no difficulty in casting aspersions on the quality of that evidence.
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To think otherwise is totally to misunderstand the role of thedefencelawyerin our society.
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That is the speech which adefencelawyerwould make in that case and which might prevail.
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Hisdefencelawyerwas happy.
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