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Back Bencher, is the member of British Parliament or of those based on British pattern who are not among the party leadership, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, (1965), p. 40.Back Bencher is an occupant of a seat in the House of Commons or similar assembly, used for a member not entitled to a front bench seat. The office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Philip Laundy & Wilding, p. 33.Back Bencher, neither holds office in Government nor belongs to the inner Councils of the party in opposition, he occupies any but the two front benches in the Chamber, though the member of a party he is generally regarded as being freer to differ from its policy than his colleagues on the front benches. Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, (1965); Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hautrey (1956); H.M. Barclay, 3rd Edn., 1970, p. 21....
Benchers
Benchers, more properly styled Masters of the Bench, seniors in the Inns of Court, usually but not necessarily King's Counsel, elected by co-optation, and having the entire management of the property of their respective Inns. The benchers have also the power of punishing a barrister guilty of misconduct, by either admonishing or rebuking him, by prohibiting him from dining in the hall or using the library, or even by expelling him from the Bar, called disbarring. They may also refuse admission to a student, or reject his call to the Bar, as was done in two cases in 1888. There is an appeal from them to the judges, R. v. Gray's Inn, (1780) 1 Dougl. 353. See Odgers on Inns of Court and of Chancery....
Bencher
One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court...
Ancients
Ancients, gentlemen of the Inns of Court and Chancery. In Gray's Inn the Society consists of benchers, ancients, barristers, and students under the bar; and here the ancients are of the oldest barristers. In the Middle Temple, those who had passed their readings used to be termed ancients. The Inns of Chancery consisted of ancients and students or clerks; from the ancients a principal or treasurer was chosen yearly....
Bench
Bench [fr. bance, A. S.], or Banc [Fr.], a tribunal of justice.(1) The judge or the aggregate body of the judges of any given Court; (2) the bishops; (3) the benchers of an Inn of Court. see KING'S BENCH.Means a Bench of a Tribunal. [Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 (13 of 1985), s. 3 (e)]The court considered in the official capacity; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Bench, is a place where a judge sits in Court, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 47.Means the raised area occupied by the judge in a courtroom, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 148.Means a Bench of the Appellate Board. [Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999), s. 2 (1) (d)]Means a Bench of the Appellate Board. [Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000 (37 of 2000), s. 2 (c)]Means a Bench of the Tribunal. [National Environment Tribunal Act, 1995 (27 of 1995), s. 2 (b)]The word 'bench' used in the referring order, even in its ordinary connotation, would, therefore, include a single Judge, Raj...
Council of Legal Education
Council of Legal Education, a body consisting of twenty benchers, five nominated by each of the four Inns of Court, to whom is entrusted the business of superintending the education and examination of students inorder to their being called to the Bar. The members remain in office for two years, and each Inn has power to fill up any vacancy that may occur in the number of its nominees during tha tperiod. See the 'Consolidated Regulations' of the Inns of Court....
Disbarring
Disbarring, expelling a barrister from the bar, a power vested in the benchers of each of the four Inns of Court, subject to an appeal to the judges. A barrister may be disbarred upon his own application, as for example, if he wants to become a solicitor....
Inns of Chancery
Inns of Chancery, so called because anciently inhab-ited by such clerks as chiefly studied the framing of writs, which regularly belonged to the cursitors, who were officers of the Court of Chancery. There were nine of them-Clement's, Clifford's, Lyon's, Furnival's, Thavies', Symond's, New Inn, and Barnard's and Staple Inn. These were formerly pre-paratory colleges for students, and many entered them before they were admitted into the Inns of Court. See 3 Rep., Pref., p. 18; Report of Royal Commission, 1855.The Inns of Court from time to time agree on certain 'Consolidated Regulations,' as to the admission of students, the mode of keeping terms, the education and examination of students, the calling of stu-dents to the Bar, and the taking out of certificates to practice under the Bar. These Regulations, a copy of which can be obtained on application to any one of the Inns, contain full information as to the steps necessary to be taken in order to being called to the Bar. See BENCHERS; ...
Masters of the Bench
Masters of the Bench. See BENCHERS....
Pension of the Inns of Court
Pension of the Inns of Court, an annual payment formerly made by each member to the Houses. Also, that which in the two Temples is called a Parliament, and in Lincoln's Inn a council, is, in Gray's Inn, termed a pension, being an assembly of the benchers to consult upon the affairs of the society. See INNS OF COURT....
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