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In India, the law relating to barristers is the Advocates Act, 1961, which is administered and enforced by the Bar Council of India. Under the act, the council is the supreme regulatory body for the legal profession in India, ensuring the compliance of the laws and maintenance of professional standards by the legal profession in the country.
In the United Kingdom, the term "the bar" refers only to the professional organization for barristers (referred to in Scotland as advocates); the other type of UK lawyer, solicitors, have their own body, the Law Society. Correspondingly, being "called to the bar" refers to admission to the profession of barristers, not solicitors.
A law enacted in 204 BC barred Roman advocates from taking fees, but the law was widely ignored. [201] The ban on fees was abolished by Emperor Claudius, who legalized advocacy as a profession and allowed the Roman advocates to become the first lawyers who could practice openly—but he also imposed a fee ceiling of 10,000 sesterces. [202]
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing (bar) to separate the area in which court or legal profession business is done from the viewing area for the general public or students of the law.
An "advocate" is a lawyer who has demonstrated qualification and belongs to an organizational structure of Advocates specified by law, [14] known as being "called to the bar" in Commonwealth countries. An examination is administered by the qualifications commission of regional advocate's chamber for admission to its Advokatura.
Artist's rendition of an early 19th-century English barrister. The title of senior counsel or state counsel (post-nominal letters: SC) or senior advocate is given to a senior lawyer in some countries that were formerly part of the British Empire.
A barristers' clerk is a manager and administrator in a set of barristers' chambers. [1] The term originated in England and is also used in some other common law jurisdictions, such as Australia. In Scotland, the equivalent role is advocate's clerk. There are about 1,200 barristers' clerks in England and Wales. Around 350 are senior clerks.
Barristers undertaking public access work can provide legal advice and representation in court in all areas of law and are entitled to represent clients in any court or tribunal in England and Wales. Once instructions from a client are accepted, it is the barrister (rather than the solicitor) who advises and guides the client through the ...