A pupillage , in England and Wales , Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland Ireland , is the barrister s equivalent of the training contract that a solicitor undertakes. It is similar to an apprenticeship where students build on what they have learnt during the Bar Professional Training Course by combining it with practical work experience in a set of chambers law barristers chambers . A pupillage is the final stage of training to be a barrister and usually lasts one year, in England and Wales being made up of two six month periods known as sixes . The first of these is the non practising six ... a Full Qualification Certificate. Although pupillage is used to describe the training ... six months of pupillage, the first will be in court on a daily basis, dealing primarily with witnesses ... and assisting senior members of chambers law chambers with their work. Criminal law pupillage Criminal ... chambers, this is the more relaxed part of the pupillage, as the pupil has little responsibility. In the second six months of pupillage, each pupil is responsible for their own case load. This will range ... pupillage in a criminal set. A pupillage at a top commercial chambers can pay 60,000. ref http www.chambersstudent.co.uk ... themselves full time to pupillage. Therefore opportunities for earning outside of pupillage are limited by time constraints. Pupillage is recognised as a difficult and demanding time. Pupils must attempt ... and will take little or no holiday. citation needed date November 2008 Gaining pupillage Prospective pupils can apply in advance for pupillages offered through OLPAS Pupillage Portal , a web based application centre, usually about one year ahead of the proposed starting date. Non Pupillage Portal chambers ... are advertised on the Pupillage Portal website. ref http www.pupillages.com Pupillages.com Bot generated title ref Gaining a pupillage is not easy. There is some evidence to suggest that every year ... encouraged by pupillage selection committees. References references See also Anna Williams ed , http ... more details
The Online Pupillage Application System , or OLPAS was a centralised service through which students applied for pupillage , the last stage of their training to barrister in England and Wales . It was replaced in 2009 by a new, similar, system called Pupillage Portal . ref Through the Portal , http www.chambersstudent.co.uk Content.aspx?SectionType 16&SectionID 174 Chambers Student Guide 2011 ref Previously, applications could be submitted for either the summer or autumn season , with deadlines in April and September in the year before pupillage was due to commence. Individual chambers were able to choose in which season they wished to recruit. ref Through the Portal , http www.chambersstudent.co.uk Content.aspx?SectionType 16&SectionID 174 Chambers Student Guide 2011 ref The Pupillage Portal has done away with this, and operates just one round of applications annually. The system is free of charge and consists of an online application form in which applicants may include their educational details, as work experience and career motivation. The service allows applicants to apply to a maximum of twelve chambers each season. Chambers that choose not to make use of the Portal have their own application procedures and forms, and may set different deadlines for each year s applications. References references See also Pupillage External links http www.pupillages.com Pupillages.com OLPAS UK law stub Category Bar of England and Wales ... more details
A pupil master or pupilmaster or pupil master is an experienced barrister who takes charge of the training of a newly Call to the bar called barrister. Barristers are called to the Bar association Bar at an early stage in their career, after completing the Bar Vocational Course BVC and undertaking a required number of dinners in their chosen Inn of Court . In most cases, the newly called barrister is then required to undertake training for a period of at least a year before the barrister can start their own Practice of law private practice . This training period is known as pupillage , usually split into two periods of six months known as sixes . The first six is a non practising six, during which the pupil will shadow their pupil master the second is usually a practising six , when the pupil, with their pupil master s permission, can undertake the supply legal services and exercise rights of audience in court. Occasionally, a pupil barrister may undertake a third six , extending the training period a further six months. At the end of pupillage, to continue practising the law, a barrister may attempt to become a Leasehold estate tenant in a set of barristers chambers, or find a position as an employed barrister . In recent years, attempts to modernise the Bar have led to some chambers referring to pupil masters as supervisors. External links http www.lawsoc.org.sg ble c2 pupillage.htm Pupillage from the Singapore Board of Legal Education Category Lawyers by type Category Legal terms Category Legal professions UK law stub ... more details
Infobox Court Case name Edmonds v Lawson QC court Court of Appeal image Rumpole.png date decided full name citations 2000 http www.bailii.org ew cases EWCA Civ 2000 69.html EWCA Civ 69 , 2000 QB 501, 2000 ICR 567, 2000 IRLR 391 judges prior actions subsequent actions opinions transcripts keywords Minimum wage , worker Edmonds v Lawson QC 2000 http www.bailii.org ew cases EWCA Civ 2000 69.html EWCA Civ 69 is a UK labour law case regarding the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and who is not included. It held that pupil barristers are not included for the purposes of the Act. Facts Rebecca Jane Edmonds was doing a criminal law pupillage with Michael Lawson QC s chambers, 23 Essex Street. She did an English degree, then a law degree, and after her BVC won an unfunded pupillage, consisting of two sets of six months with different barristers at the chambers. Sullivan J held that Miss Edmonds was a worker. The chambers appealed. Judgment Lord Bingham CJ, Pill LJ and Hale LJ held that the pupil was neither an apprentice nor a worker because of an absence of commitment to serve. He emphasised that at the end of the long procedure leading up to pupillage it would be surprising if there were no intention for a contract at all. The argument that there was no consideration, was better, but on balance pupils do provide consideration by agreeing to enter into a close, important and potentially very productive relationship. So there was a contract, but it was not argued that this was a contract of employment or service, but one of apprenticeship. As Blackburn J in The Parish of St Pancras Middlesex v The Parish of Clapham, Surrey 1860 2 El & El 742, 754, I have always thought that by apprentice is meant one who gives his services in order to be taught. All the materials regarding the duties of pupillage imposed no duty to do anything not conducive to her own training and development. Because a pupil master could not withhold a practising certificate on any ground not directly related ... more details
LawCareers.Net is a website published in association with the Law Society and the Bar Council , and sponsored by BPP Law School . It contains core editorial, news and features, advice, immediate vacancies, an events diary, and directories of law firms , chambers and undergraduate and postgraduate law course providers. ref http www.independent.co.uk student postgraduate postgraduate study postgrad queries am i too old to become a lawyer can media studies lead directly to a job 2020838.html ref LawCareers.Net also hosts the annual Training & Recruitment Awards. ref http www.lawcareers.net Information News Detail.aspx?r 2408 ref The awards recognise excellence in training and recruitment in the profession, with winning firms selected from the results of a survey completed by more than 2,000 trainee and newly qualified solicitors. ref http www.hja.net legal news hja news law careersnet awards.aspx ref ref http www.thetimes.co.uk tto law columnists article2557536.ece ref The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook is LawCareers.Net s sister publication. LawCareers.Net and The Training Contract & Pupillage Handbook are published by Globe Business Publishing, an independent specialist legal publisher based in London , United Kingdom . See also Law firms Chambers law References See Wikipedia Footnotes on how to create references using ref ref tags which will then appear here automatically Reflist External links http www.lawcareers.net Official web site ISSN 1741 9395 Category Legal websites ... more details
Refimprove date October 2007 Devilling is the period of training or pupillage undertaken by a person wishing to become an Advocate in Scotland . Scotland The prospective advocate is placed under the care of a devilmaster who traditionally must not be a Queen s Counsel, and then follows a programme of training as laid down by the Faculty of Advocates . The process has an ancient heritage, and it is the legal right of the Faculty of Advocates to admit persons as advocates to the Courts of Scotland . This right was apparently granted by the College of Justice . Ireland Devilling is a period of training undertaken by barristers in Republic of Ireland Ireland , during which they work for a senior barrister one who has been called for seven or more years but who is not a senior counsel , known as the master . It can take place during the year after which the devil has been awarded the barrister at law degree by the King s Inns although it may be done later. In order to have full rights of audience in the Irish Courts a qualified barrister must devil for at least one year.The work is generally unpaid and there is no obligation on the Master to pay the Devil. A barrister who has not completed his devilling may, nonetheless,be recognised as fully qualified by the bar associations of other EEA member states and practise in those member states in accordance with the relevant EU directives. England and Wales The term is used in the English legal system to refer to a junior barrister undertaking paid written work on behalf of a more senior barrister. The instructing solicitor is not informed of the arrangement and the junior barrister is paid by the senior barrister out of his own fee as a private arrangement between the two. This is one of the exceptions to the usual prohibition on fee sharing under the Code of Conduct for Barristers in England and Wales. Treasury Devil The Treasury ... date February 2011 See also Pupillage Training contract Category Scots law Category Law in the Republic ... more details
The legal system of Hong Kong is based on the common law system of English law England and Wales . It has a similar training and qualification process for solicitors and barristers. However, in September 2008 it switched from a three to four year LLB , whilst overseas candidates for the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws must now take conversion exams with HKU SPACE . ref http www.pcea.com.hk ref Law as a first degree Hong Kong universities have recently moved in 2008 from a three to four year LLB curriculum. Law as a second degree There are two routes available for non law graduates as an alternative to the full length LL.B. degree the Graduate Diploma in English and Hong Kong Law GDEHKL and the Juris Doctor JD . GDEHKL Main GDEHKL The GDEHKL is a two year part time course jointly offered by the University of Hong Kong s School of Professional and Continuing Education HKU SPACE as the course operator, and Manchester Metropolitan University as the qualification awarding institution. The completion of the course qualifies students to take the CPE examinations. Juris Doctor Main Juris Doctor The JD in Hong Kong is a two to three year full time course offered by all three law schools. PCLL Main PCLL All lawyers wishing to be qualified in Hong Kong must take the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws PCLL , unless they are taking the Registered Foreign Lawyer route. Law schools The LLB, LLM, JD and PCLL are currently offered by all three law schools in Hong Kong, namely CUHK Faculty of Law Chinese University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong University of Hong Kong The Open University of Hong Kong also offers distance learning LLMs in PRC Law and Chinese Business Law. ref http www.llm guide.com university 597 open university of hong kong ouhk ref Training contract or pupillage After the PCLL, prospective solicitors must undertake a two year training contract with a law firm , whilst prospective barristers must undertake one year s pupillage with sets of chambers law cha ... more details
Thomas Chitty 1802 13 February 1878 was an England English lawyer and legal writer who was pupillage pupil master to a generation of eminent lawyers and played a significant role in documenting the legal reforms of the nineteenth century. Early life Thomas was the third son of Joseph Chitty the elder Joseph Chitty and his wife, Elizabeth n e Woodward. He was never called to the bar but began to practise as a special pleader in 1820 at the early age of nineteen. ref name ODNB Hamilton 2004 ref Legal practice Chitty practiced at 1 King s Bench Walk ref name ODNB where he educated a generation of eminent pupillage pupil s including Hugh Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns Hugh Cairns , a future Lord Chancellor ref name ODNB Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell Farrer Herschell , another ref name ODNB James Whiteside , a future Chief Justice of Ireland ref name ODNB William Shee ref Barker, G. F. R. 2004 http www.oxforddnb.com view article 25285 Shee, Sir William 1804 1868 , rev. Hugh Mooney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, accessed 24 July 2007 ODNBsub ref and sundry future judge s and politician s. ref name ODNB The practice of special pleader demanded mastery of detail and the technical intricacies of the law and Chitty s career spanned huge changes from the Common Law Procedure Acts 1852 4 to the Judicature Acts Judicature Acts 1873 5 , reforms that changed the ancient regime of form of action forms of action into, essentially, the modern system. Chitty exploited the opportunity in publishing a number of practitioners texts including preparing new editions of John Frederick Archbold s The Practice of the Court of King s Bench in Personal Actions and Ejectments , despite Archbold s objections His father s Treatise on the Parties to Actions Richard Burn s Justice of the Peace 1845 and publishing several works in his own right including Forms of Practical Proceedings 1834 . His grandson T. Willes Chitty edited the 11th edition in 1879. ref name ODNB ... more details
BLP sources date December 2010 Caro Fraser is a UK British novelist, ref cite news title For love or truth url http thestar.com.my lifestyle story.asp?file 2005 2 4 features 9896359&sec features accessdate 13 December 2010 newspaper Malaysia Star date 4 February 2005 author K.S. Usha Devi ref and the daughter of writer George MacDonald Fraser , author of the Flashman books. ref cite news last Billen first Andrew title Make way for Mr Angry url http pqasb.pqarchiver.com smgpubs access 70155232.html?dids 70155232 70155232&FMT ABS&FMTS ABS FT&type current&date Dec 19, 1999&author andrew billen interview&pub Sunday Herald&desc Make way for Mr Angry&pqatl google accessdate 13 December 2010 newspaper Sunday Herald date 19 December 1999 ref Fraser was born in Carlisle, Cumbria Carlisle in 1953, but moved to Glasgow shortly afterwards and was brought up there until her mid teens, attending High School of Glasgow Glasgow High School for Girls. When she was 15 her father wrote the first book in the Flashman series, and the family moved to the Isle of Man , where she went to The Buchan School . She started writing professionally in 1992, before that she was a commercial lawyer , and before that an advertising copywriter . Her first novel, The Pupil , was based on her time spent in pupillage , which is the training required to become a barrister . The novel was written largely from a male standpoint, and deals with the trials and fortunes of Anthony Cross during his six month pupillage at Caper Court, and the various characters he meets in the eccentric world of the Inns of Court in London. Chief among these is Leo Davies, an attractive, talented, charismatic and extremely successful barrister, who happens to be bisexual, and under whose spell Anthony quickly falls. The Pupil can also be interpreted as a novel which comments upon the inequities and discrimination which exist in the legal world. This work became the foundation of the Caper Court series, which at present comprise ... more details
Harry Mount born 1971 is a United Kingdom British writer, journalist, foreign policy expert and former barrister who works for Reader s Digest , The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail . ref http www.independent.co.uk news media the feral beast 847295.html Feral Beast Get ready for the fantasy schoolmaster. The Independent , 15 June 2008 ref His father Ferdinand Mount Sir Ferdinand Mount , Baronet Bt. , is also a journalist, and was an advisor to Margaret Thatcher . He is a cousin of the current British Prime Minister, David Cameron . Mount was a scholar at Westminster school and read Classics and History at University of Oxford Oxford where he was a member of the infamous Bullingdon Club and graduated with a First. ref http www.timesonline.co.uk tol news politics article4985718.ece Drunken hellraising for the super rich , The Times , 21 October 2008 ref Mount has published three books My Brief Career , an account of his pupillage at a barristers chambers the best selling Amo, Amas, Amat ... and All That , a popular reference on the Latin language whose title harks back to Sellar and Yeatman s 1066 and All That and A Lust for Window Sills , a popular guide to British architecture. He has edited a collection of Auberon Waugh s journalism Closing the Circle and is currently writing a book about the English character and landscape for Penguin. He lives in Kentish Town . External links http www.harrymount.co.uk Official website References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Mount, Harry ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1971 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Mount, Harry Category Alumni of the University of Oxford Category British journalists Category British writers Category Linguistics writers Category 1971 births Category Living people UK journalist stub ... more details
Infobox Engineer image Replace this image male.svg image size 165 caption name Beauchamp Tower nationality United Kingdom British birth date January 13, 1845 birth place Moreton, Essex death date December 31, 1904 death place education spouse parents children discipline institutions practice name significant projects significant design significant advance Hydrodynamic lubrication significant awards Beauchamp Tower January 13, 1845 &ndash December 31, 1904 was an England English inventor and railway engineer who is chiefly known for his discovery of full film or hydrodynamic lubrication . Early life Beauchamp Tower was born the son of Robert Beauchamp Tower, rector of Moreton, Essex and educated at Uppingham School , Rutland . He decided at the age of 16 that he wanted to become an engineer and received early training at the Armstrong Works at Elswick, Tyne and Wear Elswick , where he stayed for a few months as a draughtsman after completing his four year pupillage . External links http www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com MUSEUM POWER tower tower.htm Illustrations and description of Tower s spherical steam engine Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Tower, Beauchamp ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1845 PLACE OF BIRTH Moreton, Essex DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1904 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Tower, Beauchamp Category 1845 births Category English engineers Category English inventors Category 1904 deaths Category British people in rail transport ... more details
One Essex Court is a set of barristers chambers in London , specialising in commercial litigation. Currently comprising 68 full time members, 24 of whom are silks or Queen s Counsel. ref http www.oeclaw.co.uk members barristers.asp One Essex Court members list ref One Essex Court boasts well known silks Lord Anthony Grabiner QC, Sydney Lipworth QC and Laurence Rabinowitz QC. One Essex Court is considered to be part of the Bar s Magic Circle . ref http www.thelawyer.com magic circle sets prepare to expand 86774.article Magic circle sets prepare to expand 24 January 2000 Thelawyer.com article ref It is ranked in the top band for commercial litigation by both Chambers and Partners ref http www.chambersandpartners.com UK Editorial 34343 org 10386 Chambers and Partners Commercial Dispute Resolution rankings ref and Legal 500. ref http www.legal500.com c london bar commercial litigation commercial litigation paragraph 9069 Legal 500 Commercial litigation rankings ref One Essex Court offers one of the highest pupillage awards at the Bar, 60,000. ref http www.thelawyer.com chambers overtake law firms in pay battle for junior talent 1001652.article Chambers overtake law firms in pay battle for junior talent 10 August 2009 Thelawyer.com article ref References references External links http www.oeclaw.co.uk One Essex Court home page Category Law firms based in London UK law stub law stub ... more details
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Infobox Occupation name Trainee solicitor image Image Quentin Massys 007.jpg 200px caption 16th century painting of a civil law notary , by Flemish painter Quentin Massys official names Details type Profession activity sector Law competencies Interpersonal skills, analytical mind, critical thinking, commercial sense formation Legal Practice Course and possibly Common Professional Examination employment field Law firm , government, in house related occupation Solicitor , pupil barrister, barrister , judge average salary HK 14,000 50,000 Hong Kong br 36,500 ref http www.thelawyer.com cgi bin item.cgi?id 133791&d 415&h 417&f 416 ref England In the United Kingdom , Australia , Hong Kong and certain other English common law jurisdiction s, a trainee solicitor is a prospective lawyer undergoing professional training at a law firm to qualify as a fully fledged solicitor . This period of training is known as a training contract and usually lasts for two years. The barrister s equivalent would be twelve months pupillage under a pupilmaster , in chambers law barristers chambers . Route England and Wales Before they are eligible to train, the trainee must first have an undergraduate L.L.B. degree in law , or another degree and later taken a conversion course i.e. the Common Professional Examination , and then completed the Legal Practice Course LPC . On successful completion of the training contract, the trainee will qualify and be admitted as a solicitor. Trainee solicitors and training contracts were formerly known as articled clerk s and articles of clerkship, respectively. Scotland In Scotland the system is similar to that in England and Wales. In order to become a trainee solicitor, the student must complete a undergraduate L.L.B. degree in law , or complete the Law Society of Scotland examinations, before undertaking a one year Diploma in Legal Practice . This qualifies the graduate for a Training Certificate. On receipt of the training certificate, the graduate will beg ... more details
property, family law, or employment and labor law. The membership is divided into pupillage teams, with each team consisting of a few members from each membership category. Each pupillage team conducts one program for the Inn each year. Pupillage team members get together informally outside ... more details
Richard Vaughan Barnewall 1779 1780 29 January 1842 was an England English lawyer and law report er. He was the fourth son of Robert, a London merchant reputedly descended from fifteenth century Ireland Irish chief justice Sir Nicholas Barnewall , and Sophia, daughter of Captain Silvester Barnewall, himself uncle to Robert Barnewall, 12th Baron Trimlestown Robert Barnewall . The Barony Baronies of Baron Trimlestown Trimlestown and Kingsland were held by various members of his family. ref name ODNB Rigg 2004 ref Barnewall was a lifelong Roman Catholic , educated at Stonyhurst College and the University of Edinburgh . A pupillage pupil of Richard Blick , a notable special pleader , Barnewall was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1806. He began his practice on the home circuit and at the Surrey quarter sessions . ref name ODNB Barnewall is best remembered as a careful and accurate reporter of the King s Bench , particularly in association with ref name ODNB Edward Hall Alderson , 1817 1822 Sir Cresswell Cresswell , 1822 1830 and John Leycester Adolphus , 1830 1834 . Barnewell retired in 1834, having inherited property from the baroness de Montesquieu . He died at his chambers at 13 King s Bench Walk, never having married, being buried in Paddington churchyard . ref name ODNB References div class references small references div Bibliography Obituaries Annual Register 1842 , 247 8 Gentleman s Magazine , 2nd ser., 17 1842 331 2 Anon. 1930 Stonyhurst Magazine , 20 285 , Feb cite book author Burke, B. title A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire edition new edn year 1883 pages 23 4 cite book author Dodd, C. R. title The Annual Biography Being Lives of Eminent or Remarkable Persons, Who have Died within the Year MDCCCXLII year 1843 pages 34 7 cite book author Lodge, J. authorlink John Lodge archivist title The Peerage of Ireland volume 2 year 1754 pages 45 55 Rigg, J. M. 2004 http www.oxforddnb.com view art ... more details
Orphan date March 2011 Major Harold Berridge Order of the Indian Empire CIE Order of the British Empire OBE 1872 &ndash 17 June 1949 was a United Kingdom British civil engineer and mechanical engineer . Berridge was born in Leicester . He was educated at the City of London School and served a civil engineering pupillage between 1890 and 1893, when he was appointed resident engineer of Poole Harbour , holding the position until 1896. In 1897 he obtained a position with Mowlem John Mowlem & Co , as an engineer on the City and South London Railway . From 1898 to 1901 he worked as an agent for W. Hill & Co in Plymouth and from 1901 to 1902 as an agent for Scott & Middleton at Pallion Shipyard. In 1902 he went to the United States as assistant superintendent of the construction of the New York City approaches of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad tunnel under the Hudson River . In 1904, Berridge went to Aden as Chief Engineer to the Aden Port Trust . He held this post until his retirement in 1924. In 1917 he was commissioned into the part time Indian Defence Force as a Major and Commandant of the 45th Aden Rifles and from 1918 to 1920 he served as Garrison Engineer and Deputy Assistant Director of Railways with the Aden Field Force . He was mentioned in despatches twice and appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire CIE ref LondonGazette issue 31751 date 23 January 1920 startpage 978 supp ref and Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE ref LondonGazette issue 31709 date 30 December 1919 startpage 16098 supp yes ref in the 1919 Indian War Honours. He relinquished his commission in September 1920, but was permitted to retain his rank. ref LondonGazette issue 32753 date 6 October 1922 startpage 7050 supp ref Berridge retired back to England, where he worked as assistant to the administrator of Housing Development Schemes of London County Council from 1925 to 1931. Footnotes Reflist References Biography, Who Was Who Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Personda ... more details
Sir Stephen Charles Laws , Order of the Bath KCB , QC, is a British lawyer and Civil Servant who has served since 2006 as the First Parliamentary Counsel. ref name BristolBio cite web url http www.bris.ac.uk alumni featured notables laws.html title Stephen Laws CB LLB 1972 author Stephen Laws date April 2008 work Featured alumni Spotlight on... publisher Bristol University accessdate 9 October 2010 ref As head of the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel United Kingdom Office of the Parliamentary Counsel , Laws is responsible for the Legal writing Legal drafting drafting of all the government legislation which is laid before Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament . Alongside the Treasury Solicitor and the Director of Public Prosecutions , Laws is one of the three most senior lawyers in the Her Majesty s Civil Service Civil Service . Laws undertook his LLB at Bristol University , graduating in 1972, and is thus the first non Oxbridge graduate to hold the office. ref name BristolBio After a year lecturing at Bristol, Laws was Call to the Bar called to the Bar at Middle Temple , and following pupillage and a brief period practising, he joined the Home Office in 1975 as a legal assistant. He transferred to the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel the next year, and excepting two secondments to the Law Commission England and Wales Law Commission , has stayed there since, rising first to Deputy Parliamentary Counsel in 1985, and then Parliamentary Counsel in 1991. He replaced Geoffrey Bowman Sir Geoffrey Bowman as First Parliamentary Counsel in 2006. ref cite web url http www.sas.ac.uk bowman.html title Sir Geoffrey Bowman, KCB QC author School of Advanced Studies date October 2007 publisher University of London accessdate 9 October 2010 ref Laws was appointed the Order of the Bath CB in the 1996 New Year Honours . ref name Hon CB LondonGazette issue 54255 date 1995 12 29 startpage 3 supp 1 accessdate 2010 10 09 ref References reflist External links DEFAULTSORT Laws, St ... more details
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Other persons James Hunt Sir Patrick James Hunt 26 January 1943 8 November 2006 was an England English barrister and High Court judge . Hunt was born in Coalville in Leicestershire , where his father was a solicitor . He was educated at the Ashby School Boys Grammar School in Ashby de la Zouch , and read modern history at Keble College, Oxford . He did not concentrate on his studies, spending his energies on extracurricular activities, and graduated with a fourth class degree. He became a teacher of English, but was called to the bar at Gray s Inn in 1968 and joined the Chambers at 1 King s Bench Walk after serving a pupillage there with David Smout. He practised mainly in criminal law on the Midland and Oxford Circuit , with a side line in personal injury. His obituaries praise his strong court performance and ability to pitch his argument to suit the jury. He served as defence counsel in the Arms to Iraq Matrix Churchill case in 1992, and in the murder trial of Beverley Allitt in 1993. He was prosecution counsel in the trial of Groom horses groom Clem O Brien for the murder of racehorse trainer Alex Scott racehorse trainer Alex Scott in 1995. He became head of chambers at 36 Bedford Row from 1991 to 1999, and became a bencher at Gray s Inn. He became a Queen s Counsel in 1987, was a member of the Bar Council General Council of the Bar from 1989 to 1991 and 1996 to 1999, and Leader of the Midland and Oxford Circuit from 1996 to 1999. He sat as a Recorder judge Recorder from 1982 to 2000, and as a Deputy High Court judge from 1994 to 2000. He was appointed a High Court judge in 2000, in the Queen s Bench Division , and received the customary knighthood . On 21 November 2000, he granted an injunction to Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones to prevent publication of pictures of their wedding in Hello magazine Hello magazine , but the injunction was quickly overturned by the Court of Appeal. Douglas and Zeta Jones later won substantial damages. He sat on ... more details
for the English cricketer and judge, 1828 1899 Joseph William Chitty Joseph Chitty 12 March 1775 17 February 1841 was an England English lawyer and legal writer , author of some of the earliest practitioners texts and founder of an important dynasty of lawyers. Life and practice He was himself the son of a Joseph Chitty 1729 1795 , and his wife, Sarah n e Cartwright. He initially practised as a special pleader before being called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1816. He never became a King s Counsel KC but built a huge junior practice at 1 Pump Court and published many books. ref name ODNB Lobban 2004 ref Chitty was also pupillage pupil master to a generation of lawyers, including Thomas Starkie ref name ODNB Edward Hall Alderson ref Hedley, S. 2004 http www.oxforddnb.com view article 303 Alderson, Sir Edward Hall bap. 1787, d. 1857 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, accessed 22 July 2007 subscription required ref Thomas Noon Talfourd ref Anon. 1911 Thomas Noon Talfourd Encyclopaedia Britannica ref and Henry Havelock . ref Anon. 1911 Henry Havelock Encyclopaedia Britannica ref In fact, at the time, the Inns of Court were in decline and Chitty organised lectures and moot s, in 1810 being given permission to use the hall of Lincoln s Inn . ref name ODNB Personality and later life Despite his successful practice, by 1831, Chitty had amassed extensive debts that were costing almost GBP 2,000 per year to service. Further, Chitty s health was in decline and he was becoming increasingly anxious about his parlous state. Much of his energy became taken up in avoiding the attentions of his creditors. He retired from practice in 1833 but continued to publish. He died in London . ref name ODNB References Reflist Bibliography By Chitty Chitty, T. 1799 Treatise on Bills of Exchange 1808 Precedents of Pleading 1811a Treatise on the Law of Apprentices 1811b Treatise on the Game Laws 1812 Treatise on the Law of Nations 1818 Treatise on Commercial ... more details
for the sixteenth century political theorist and humanist Thomas Starkey Thomas Starkie 2 January 1782 15 April 1849 was an England English lawyer and jurist . A talented mathematician in his youth, he especially contributed to the unsuccessful attempts to codify the English criminal law in the nineteenth century. Early life Born Blackburn , Lancashire , Thomas was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Starkie, vicar of Blackburn, and his wife, Ann n e Yatman. He was educated at Clitheroe Royal Grammar School and St John s College, Cambridge , from where he graduation graduated in 1803 as senior wrangler and first Smith s prize man. In the same year, he became a Fellow Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin fellow of St Catharine s College, Cambridge . ref Venn id STRY799T name Starkie, Thomas ref In 1812 he married Lucy, eldest daughter of Rev. Thomas Dunham Whitaker which entailed that he resign his fellowship. The couple went on to parent five children. ref name ODNB Lobban 2004 ref Legal practice Starkie entered Lincoln s Inn as a pupillage pupil of Joseph Chitty the elder Joseph Chitty and was called to the bar in 1810, proceeding to practise as a special pleader as well as on the northern circuit, and becoming a Queen s Counsel QC . ref name ODNB In 1823 he became Downing Professor of the Laws of England Downing Professor of law at University of Cambridge Cambridge though he had little success in attracting pupils with his poor presentations, a fate shared with his contemporary John Austin legal philosophy John Austin . He repeated his failure at the Inner Temple in 1833. However, in 1833, Starkie was appointed to the royal commission on a proposed English Criminal Code and spent the rest of his life on various commissions on reform and codification of the criminal law. He was not always popular with his colleagues, Henry Bellenden Ker calling him childish and desultory and wayward . ref name ODNB He was also a sometime law report er and author of the influential texts A Pr ... more details
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