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Barrister

#Legal professions #Common law #Law in the United Kingdom

1 The legal profession in ________ is also divided into two branches: barristers and solicitors.

2 What type is thing is Barrister?

3 The legal profession in ________ is also divided into two branches: barristers (where the Cantonese name daai lut si, 大律師 is also used) and solicitors (where the Cantonese name lut si, 律師 is also used).

4 The ________ does not draw a distinction between lawyers as pleaders, or barristers, or lawyers as agents, or solicitors.

5 Although ________ are separate in some aspects of the political structure of the United Kingdom, they compose a single legal jurisdiction.

6 In April 2003 there were 554 barristers in independent practice in ________.

7 In ________ the employment and practice of barristers (known as Advocates) is consistent with the Commonwealth.

8 Many countries such as the ________ do not observe a distinction between barristers and solicitors.

9 In the common tradition, the respective roles of a lawyer—that is as legal adviser and advocate—were formally split into two separate, regulated sub-professions, the other being the office of ________.

10 In ________, avocats, or attorneys, were, until the 20th century, the equivalent of barristers.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • English barrister Joseph Keble went to the Court of King's Bench every day from 1661 to 1710, but was never known to have a brief for a client?
  • Sir William Garrow, a barrister from the Regency England period whose work was largely forgotten for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, was recently cited in a 2006 Irish Court of Criminal Appeal case?
  • Sir Richard Garth was a barrister, MP, Privy Counsellor and Chief Justice of Bengal as well as Lord of the Manor of Morden?
  • the Gruban v Booth case was so popular that the barristers had difficulty making to their way through the crowds to the court on the last day?
  • when Henry McCardie was a barrister, he often worked so late that his chambers were nicknamed "the lighthouse", as there was light coming from the windows?
  • the former Australian Supreme Court justice and barrister, Sir John Vincent Barry, qualified as a lawyer after graduating from an articled clerk course?
  • Sir William Fortescue was prompted to become a barrister by the death of his wife?
  • Monomohun Ghose became the first Indian practicing barrister in 1867?
  • Ellis Bent was the first barrister appointed as a judge in Australia?
  • British barrister Sir Tony Hetherington was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service after it was founded in 1986?
  • Frederick Matthew Darley was offered the position of Chief Justice of New South Wales, Australia, twice, and that he refused it the first time as he would earn less money than if he continued to practise as a barrister?
  • Gray's Inn only began employing a librarian after barristers began stealing the books?
  • John Verney became a Member of Parliament to gain contacts to help him in his career as a barrister?
  • Sir John Gurney first rose to fame as a barrister within two months of qualifying?
  • Indo-Guyanese lawyer and civil rights activist Rudy Narayan could, Michael Mansfield has written, have been the great black barrister of his generation?
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