A person who likes to give authoritative-sounding opinions on subjects in which they are not qualified, especially legal matters.
〈英〉兵营业余律师；（尤指法律事务方面）好为人师者
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Note for the barrack-room lawyers out there - yes, we know there are instances where it does this already, but it does so for fairly arcane historical and contractual reasons, rather than as a conscious matter of strategy, OK?
You strike me as a 'barrack room lawyer', playing semantic games.
Although Edward Crawford was being humorous in his vision of ‘barrack-room lawyers’ deciding not to obey an order because it was illegal, there is actually a very serious point at issue here.
"I was spending more of my time being a barrack-room lawyer than a designer, so I decided to do something about it," she says.
So strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a counsel acknowledged by the court, and anyone who comes before this court as counsel is basically no more than a barrack room lawyer.
He commented: ‘The only way I want to celebrate is to stop being a self-employed barrack-room lawyer.’
I do not wish to come the barrack-room lawyer, but there is a degree of confusion about the points that we are addressing.
It is not just the odd barrack room lawyer who will read such documents.
A few years ago, Radio Scotland's football team began the day as barrack-room lawyers, berating the courts for flinging an unrepentant Duncan Ferguson into jail.
Beate's role was to identify the ‘nice boys’ who would give their all for the team, and weed out the playboys and barrack-room lawyers.
The judge knew a gallant Pole when he saw one and he also - oh dear, oh dear for Mr Blunt, who had elected to defend himself - recognised a barrack-room lawyer.
It is drawn up by the social services department without medical advice but probably with advice from a barrack-room lawyer.
You do not have to be much of a barrack-room lawyer to spot the holes in this argument.