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independent counsel
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Independent advice
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remove
for any act under color of office may also be removed. b : to dismiss from office [an independent counsel…may be removed from office…only by the personal action of the Attorney General "U.S. Code"] c : to
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special prosecutor
the regular prosecutor is unable or unqualified to prosecute or for other reasons does not prosecute see also independent counsel
habeas corpus
an extraordinary remedy, and is by far the most frequently used writ of habeas corpus. It is an independent civil action and a form of collateral attack to determine not the guilt or innocence of the person … relief under the writ include a conviction based on illegally obtained evidence, a denial of effective assistance of counsel, or a conviction by a jury that was improperly selected and impaneled. The degree of restraint on a
New trial
be granted. They are all subject to the rule that in an action of contract, unless some right independent of the damages be in question, the amount in dispute must be 20l. at least for the Court … if any of them had declared that the plaintiff should never have a verdict. (4) Absence, etc., of counsel or solicitor. The instances are very rare in which the Court has granted a new trial on this
Quo warranto
Corner's Crown Practice. The quo warranto proceeding affords a judicial remedy by which any person, who holds an independent substantive public office or franchise or liberty, is called upon to show by what right he holds the … 1906, rr. 43-48 and 123, 124. An application in the nature of quo warranto must be made by counsel; it cannot be made by an applicant in person, Re a Solicitor, (1903) 2 KB 205. If the
corporation
called also subchapter S corporation shell corporation 1 : a corporation that exists as a legal entity without independent assets or operations as an instrument by which another company or corporation can carry out dealings usually unrelated … municipal corporation. professional corporation : a corporation organized by one or more licensed individuals (as a doctor or lawyer) to provide professional services and obtain tax advantages public corporation 1 : a government-owned corporation (as a utility
Office
6 SCC 166. Means 'office' or 'employment as one subsisting, permanent -- substantive position which had an existence independent from the person who filled it, which went on and was filled in succession by successive holders, McMillan … not holders of offices, Dr. Deorao Laxman Anande v. Keshav Laxman Borkar, AIR 1958 Bom 314 (316). An advocate appointed as a Special Government Pleader to assist the Government Pleader in a particular case does not hold
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