Special Pleaders

Special pleaders, members of an inn of Court who devote themselves mainly to the drawing of pleadings, and to attending at judge's chambers. If not called to the Bar, as was in former times (when many special pleaders practised as such prior to being called to the Bar) frequently the case, they take out annual certificates on which a duty of 9l. is payable, under s. 44 and Schedule of the (English) Stamp Act, 1891, re-enacting similar provisions of the repealed Stamp Act, 1870. They are exempt while in practice from jury service, by the Juries Act, 1870, and see (English) Solicitors Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 37), ss. 47 to 49.