inner bar

noun

, English Law.

1. a body of the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel who sit and plead inside the dividing bar in the court, ranking above the junior counsel.

inner bar

noun

1. all Queen's or King's Counsel collectively

Example Sentences

"I was in the outer bar in London when it happened. I just noticed that a shot was fired, and I was hit by a shard of glass. There were more and more and more shots, so I escaped into the inner bar and tried to get as many as possible with me," he said.

From BBC

The mortars used at the life-stations will not carry a life-line to a vessel at five hundred yards from the shore in the teeth of a gale, and are therefore useless at that distance; but if the wreck is fortunate enough to be lifted over the inner bar by the sea, it will strike the beach at a distance where it is practicable to save life under ordinary contingencies.

From Project Gutenberg

Into the Feathers some dozen Learys were driven, and for a while they held the inner bar and the tap-room against the Ranns, who swarmed after them, chairs, bottles, and pewter pots flying thick, while Mother Gapp, the landlady, hung hysterical on the beer-pulls in the bar, supplicating and blubbering aloud.

From Project Gutenberg

They were under orders to cross the inner bar and ascend the Mohoro River.

From Project Gutenberg

The time of high water had gone, and the tide was beginning to fall, when the Myra essayed the task of crossing the inner bar.

From Project Gutenberg