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judge advocate

judge advocate pl: judge advocates 1 : an officer serving under the Judge Advocate General 2 : an officer charged

Person aggrieved

349: (1966) 2 SCR 517: (1967) SCD 61: (1966) BLJR 920: 1967 Cr LJ 409. Person aggrieved, the Advocate-General under the Act finishes his duty when the hearing is over and he cannot be considered to be

Pre-audience

Pre-audience, the right of one to be heard before another; as of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General before King's Counsel, of King's Counsel before other barristers, and of barristers generally in the order of their

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Coke, Sir Edward

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, made Chief Justice

Law agents (Scotland)

Law agents (Scotland). Solicitors in Scotland; generally members of a society. See SOLICITORS. … Law agents (Scotland). Solicitors in Scotland; generally members of a society. See SOLICITORS.

Jurisdiction

as meaning 'generally the authority of the judicial officer to act in the matters', Rachapudi Subba Rao v. Advocate General, AIR 1981 SC 755: (1981) 2 SCR 320: (1981) 2 SCC 577. Jurisdiction should not be confused

Court-martial

(ibid. s. 128, and Rules of Procedure, r. 73). There are general, district, and regimental courts-martial. See JUDGE ADVOCATE. Their jurisdiction does not, however, exempt any officer or soldier from being proceeded against by the ordinary course

Senior counsel

less occupies a position akin to a Queen's counsel in England next after the Attorney General and the Solicitor General, T.V. Chaudhary v. Chief Secretary, Govt. of A.P. (1987) 3 SCC 258: (1987) 3 SCR 258.

Information

charity), the matter of complaint was offered to the Court by way of information by the Attorney or Solicitor-General, and not by way of petition. When a suit immediately concerned the crown or government alone, the proceeding

Criminal information

suggestion of an offence com-mitted, filed bby the Attorney-General, or, in the vacancy of that office, by the Solicitor-General, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, without the intervention of a grandjury. It lies for

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