Barrister - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: barristerBarrister, or Barrastor
Barrister, or Barrastor, a counsellor or advocate learned in the law, admitted to plead at the bar, and there to take upon himself the protection and defence of clients. He is termed jurisconsultus and licentiatus in jure. As to the mode and qualification for obtaining the degree of a barrister, see INNS OF COURT; and consult Marchant on Barristers; Warren's Law Studies; Forsyth's Hortenisus; and Chitty on Contracts; also Mew's Digest, tit. 'Barrister.'It shall mean a barrister of England or Ireland, or a member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), S. 3 (4)]Fees.--A barrister can maintain no action for his fees, which are given not as a salary or hire, but as a mere honorarium or gratuity, and even an express promise by a client to pay money to counsel for his advocacy is not binding, see Re Le Brasseur & Oakley, (1896) 2 Ch 487; Kennedy v. Broun, (1863) 13 CBN S 677, where the whole law on the subject of counsel's fees is elaborately discus...
barrister-at-law
barrister-at-law pl: barristers-at-law : barrister often used as a formal title ...
Barrister
Barrister, is the name of a degree, also denotes a person who practises that profession. Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), 4th Edn., Para 351, p. 271.Barrister, is a lawyer who argues cases before a British Court; especially one who is allowed to argue before a British High Court, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 45....
Barrister in independent practice
Barrister in independent practice, is barrister who holds himself out to the public generally as willing, in return for the payment of fees, to render legal services to clients, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), 4th Edn., Para 444, p. 349....
barrister
barrister [Middle English barrester, from barre bar + -ster (as in legister lawyer)] 1 : a lawyer who argues cases before a British court ;esp : one who is allowed to argue before a British high court compare solicitor NOTE: Many countries in the Commonwealth (as England and Australia) and the Republic of Ireland divide the legal profession into barristers and solicitors. In Canada, every lawyer is both a barrister and a solicitor, although individual lawyers may describe themselves as one or the other. Scotland uses the term advocate to refer to lawyers allowed to argue cases in its courts. 2 : lawyer ...
Utter Barristers
Utter Barristers, barristers who plead 'without' the bar; all such counsel as are not either King's Counsel or Serjeants-at-law. See Cowel, tit. 'Barraster.'...
Brief
Brief [fr. brevis, Lat.; brief, Dutch, a letter], an abbreviated statement of the pleadings, proofs, and affidavits in any legal proceeding, with a concise narrative of the facts and merits of the plaintiff's case, or the defendant's defence, for the instruction of counsel at the trial or hearing. See BARRISTER.Also a document bearing the royal signature addressed to bishops and clergy, authorizing the collection in churches of money for charitable purposes therein mentioned. The issue of such documents was regulated by 4 Anne, c. 14, repealed by 9 Geo. 4, c. 42, and is still legal, though disused for many years.Brief, is a breviated statement of a case which comprises a barrister's instructions to appear at a hearing. It contains all the information and papers to be used by the barrister to conduct the case, including proofs of all witnesses' evidence. Acceptance of brief does not give rise to any contractual obligation between a barrister and either the professional or lay client, Ha...
County Courts
County Courts. The old County Court was a tribunal inident to the jurisdiction of a sheriff, but was not a Court of Record. Proceedings were removable into a superior court by recordari facias loquelam, or writ of false judgment. Outlawries ofabsconding offenders were here proclaimed.Far more important inferior tribunals have now been established throughout England. They were first established in 1846 by 9 & 10 Vict. c. 95, 'the Act for the more easy recovery of Small Debts and Demands in England,' repealed and re-enacted with fourteen amending Acts by the consolidating and amending (English) County Courts Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 43), an Act very materially but very shortly amended by the (English) County Courts Act, 1903 (3 Dew. 7, c. 42), which came into operation on the 1st January, 1905, and raised the common law jurisdiction from 50l. (to which amount it had been raised by an Act of 1850 from the original 20l. under the Act of 1846) to 100l. The number of jurors was also raise...
Bar
Bar, (1) a partition running across the courts of law, behind which all outer-barristers and every member of the public must sit or stand. Solicitors, being officers of the court, are admitted within it, as are also King's counsel, barristers with patents of precedence, and serjeants, in virtue of their ranks. Parties who appear in person also are placed within the bar on the floor of the court. (2) the profession of barrister, who is said to be 'called to the Bar.' See BARRISTER.The term 'bar' in Entry 26-A(1) would also include a rod, Alcebax Metals (P) Ltd v. CCF, (1997) 11 SCC 613 (614). [Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944, Item 26A(1)]To prevent, esp. by legal objection; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means the profession and occupation of lawyer, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 44.Means the railing in a court room that enclose the area around the judge where prisoners are stationed in criminal cases or where the business of the Court is transacted in civil cas...
Client (Lay)
Client (Lay), refers to the person on whose behalf the barrister is retained or in relation to an employed barrister, his employer, Code of Conduct for the Bar of England and Wales (4th Edn., 1989) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 458, p. 364....
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