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Bencher

One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court

Back Bencher

Back Bencher, is the member of British Parliament or of those based on British pattern who are not among the

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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

Bench

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

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

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

Inns of Chancery

information as to the steps necessary to be taken in order to being called to the Bar. See BENCHERS; and consult Six Lectures on the Inns of Court and of Chancery, by W. Blake Odgers, K.C., and

Masters of the Bench

Masters of the Bench. See BENCHERS.

Pension of the Inns of Court

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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