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bills. All three kinds formerly required the assent of Sovereign, Lords, and Commons, but the assent of the House of Lords can now be dispensed with in the case of bills passed under the provisions of the … In the case of local and personal bills and private bills the promoters and opposers are heard by counsel before select committees, whose decision is rarely questioned, the proceedings in the Houses being ordinarily merely formal. See

Coke, Sir Edward

the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1578, counsel in Shelley's case (see that title), Speaker of the House of Commons, Solicitor-General and Attorney-General under Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I. shortly after his accession in 1603,

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Exchequer Chamber, Court of

less than five. One counsel only was heard on each side. Error lay from this Court to the House of Lords. The Court is abolished, and its jurisdiction in appeals (proceedings in error in civil cases and

High Steward, Court of the Lord

WN 4. A barrister who is also a peer may not appear as counsel to argue before the House of Lords when sitting under the presidency of the Lord High Steward on a criminal case. See also

Opinion

Opinion. A technical term applied to the judgment of a Law Lord delivered in the House of Lords. Also the written advice given by counsel upon facts submitted to him. See DICTUM as to

Pains and penalties, Bills of

are to be affected by them are entitled by custom to be heard at the Bar of the House in person or by counsel. But on a bill to disfranchise the borough of St. Albans, this claim

Session, Court of, in Scotland

the Court during session, and performs the other duties of junior Lord Ordinary. The chambers of the Parliament House, in which the First and Second Divisions of the Court of Session hold their sittings, are called the … of the judges is in the Crown. No on can be appointed who has not served as an advocate or principal clerk of session for five years, or a writer to the signet for ten years. reference

Interest

defen-dant company, had given judgment in its favour, the judgment was on that account see aside by the House of Lords. See also Reg. v. London County Council, (1892) 1 QB 190; and other cases in Mew's … right to take objection to hearing by a judge on the ground of interest is often waived by counsel on the judge announcing his interest; see, e.g., Law Times newspaper of June 30, 1906, at p. 222.

Poor Prisoners, Defence of

as to scales of payment may be made by a Secretary of State. For the Regulations, Report of House of Commons Select Committee on the Bill which became the Act, and notes on the Act, see Chitty's … legal aid in the preparation and conduct of his defence at the trial and to have solicitor and counsel assigned to him for that purpose, if a certificate, called the 'defence certificate,' is granted by the justices

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