This is conducted by the Masters of the Bench, or Benchers, who are generally senior practising barristers or judges.

David Perry QC is a senior English criminal barrister.

At all times the panel must contain at least one senior barrister, senior solicitor, retired senior judge and lay members without legal qualifications.

Today there are over 300 Benchers in Gray's Inn, mostly senior barristers and members of the judiciary.

He was made a King's Counsel, a senior barrister, in 1926.

Recorders and Assistant Recorders are senior barristers or solicitors who sit as judges a few weeks each year.

The term is used in the English legal system to refer to a junior barrister undertaking paid written work on behalf of a more senior barrister.

He took silk, thus becoming a senior barrister, in 2001.

He met Tim Healy, a senior barrister and former nationalist MP, in late 1919 to consider his options.

The most senior barristers were permitted to sit on the bench at moots.