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Defender, advocate, pleader

Defender, advocate, pleader, a debender exerts himself in favour of one that wants support; and advocate signifies one who is

Public meeting

of Parliament are prohibited by the Seditious Meetings Act, 1817. As a result of disturbances created by persons advocating the extension of the parliamentary franchise to women there was passed the Public Meeting Act, 1908, which by

Polytheistic

Of or pertaining to polytheism characterized by polytheism professing or advocating polytheism as polytheistic worship a polytheistic author or nation

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Suspension of practice

Suspension of practice, means voluntary suspen-sion of practice as an advocate or suspension of an advocate by a State Bar Council for misconduct. [Advocates Welfare Fund Act, 2001 (45

Solicitor

attorney or solicitor only, to be admitted to practise as an attorney and solicitor also. Solicitors practise as advocates before magistrates at petty sessions and quarter sessions where there is no bar, in County Courts, at Arbitrations,

Scandalising the court

confidence in judicial officers it would amount to scandalising the court to undermine its authority and thereby the Advocates will have committed contempt of court, Harish Uppal v. Union of India, (2003) 2 SCC 45. Scandalising the

Reason to believe

take action under law, A.K. Subbaiah v. Karnataka State Bar Council, Bangalore, AIR 2002 Kant 410. (See also Advocates Act, 1961, s. 35) Reason to believe, must be supported by a brief order recording reasons and prima

Rank - Precedence

and 'precedence' but conceptually they all are of the same family and breed, block and substance, Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association v. Union of India, (1993) 4 SCC 441: AIR 1994 SC 268 (445).

Professional misconduct

All 363. The test to be applied in all such cases is whether the proved misconduct of the advocate is such that he must be regarded as unworthy to remain a member of the honourable profession to

Doctors' Commons

having regularly taken that degree in either of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and having been admitted advocates in pursuance of the rescript of the Archbishop of Canterbury, had been elected fellows of the college in

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