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bush lawyer
noun
a person with some knowledge of law but no actual qualifications AUSTRALIA, 1835- Others–in the dock–are confident and even aggressive. Mostly these are the “bush-lawyer” type who confidently hope, in one fell swoop, to annihilate the Crown case with an absolutely unanswerable piece of evidence. — “Sweeney – ex-crook”, I Confess, p. 3, 1936
- Integrity Hanson was a bit of a bush lawyer. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 61, 1965
- At the same time many prisoners became “bush lawyers” simply for the relief it offered from daily tedium. — Donald Catchlove, Ray Denning My Life and Time, p. 57, 1994
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