Sentences with phrase «worked as a barrister»

From 1976 - 78 he was a legal officer with the Attorney - General's Department and from 1979 worked as barrister, advising on trade practices, commercial, administrative, equity and constitutional cases.

McCartney worked as a barrister specialising in employment law and helped to establish a local Chambers in Enfield in the early 1990s.

Labour has picked a new candidate to replace the defeated Dunwoody, in his first press release to get any coverage he attacks the Conservative MP and local hero Edward Timpson, for being lazy and continuing to work as a barrister — not true of course — but when did the actuality ever get in the way of a Labour smear campaign.

His background includes working as a barrister in New Zealand, in top tier law firms in New Zealand, Scotland, England and Australia and as General Counsel in Australia.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr Fotherby worked as a barrister and solicitor at Meredith Connell, the Office of the Crown Solicitor for Auckland, New Zealand.

He has worked as a barrister and solicitor in British Columbia and as an attorney in Massachusetts.

Commenced work as a Barristers» clerk in 1994; spent 12 years at Brick Court Chambers (Chambers of Jonathan Hirst QC & Helen Davies QC) before joining Essex Court Chambers in July 2006.

Having worked as a barristers» clerk for almost 25 years, Ben draws upon his wealth of experience to mentor and manage a team of Clerks that consistently delivers a level of service that clients have come to expect of Essex Court Chambers.

Dean commenced work as a barristers» clerk at Essex Court Chambers in April 2004 and has continued to progress from junior clerk to his current position as Legal Support Supervisor, Dean is responsible for managing the general office and co-ordinating the junior clerk team.

James Banks commenced work as a barristers» clerk at Essex Court Chambers in August 2004 and has continued to progress from junior clerk to his current position as assistant to his Team Leader Ben Perry.

Not exact matches

Having worked as a legal aid barrister or state prosecutor for 15 years....

The statement read in part, «Besides, he also posed as Barrister Peter Jackson, a spurious lawyer working with the National Judicial Council.

Members of the commission who have been given four weeks to work are: Justice M.A Adeigbe who is the chairman, Mrs. Bose Dawodu DCP (rtd), Barrister Ismail Ajibade, the State Commissioner of Police, the State Director of DSS and Mr. Bisi Babalola who will act as the secretary.

«In practice, if campaigner X is incurring bills in the knowledge that campaigner Y is going to pay those bills it is quite difficult to see that sensibly as anything but working together,» says Jolyon Maugham QC, one of Britain's leading barristers.

Under parliamentary rules, MPs are allowed to engage in outside work, including taking on company directorships, working as consultants, acting as barristers or simply giving speeches or writing books — provided that all income is declared in official registers, and no work relates to lobbying parliament.

A graduate from City of London with an LLB in Business Law and a qualified Barrister, Duncan entered the interactive games business in 1996 working for Electronic Arts as their first lawyer for Europe.

The new, fairer Advocates» Graduated Fee Scheme (AGFS), if implemented, will mean barristers» fees are no longer based on outdated and distorting factors such as the number of pages in a case, but instead are paid according to the seriousness and complexity of the work.

Employed barristers * will now be allowed to carry out pro bono work as the Bar Council's call for professional...

Employed barristers * will now be allowed to carry out pro bono work as the Bar Council's call for professional indemnity insurance (PII) extension to cover the employed Bar has been approved by Bar Mutual.

Sponsored by a British barrister who once worked for Advocate General van Gerven, the litigants aim to ask the Court of Justice whether they should continue to enjoy their Union citizenship rights even after ceasing to be formally Union citizens as a result of Brexit.

Once the case is finished and the barrister has time for the more mundane support and marketing activities needed to bring in more work, our service can be switched off as easily as it was engaged.»

As an adjunct to his disciplinary work, Marc Beaumont advises and represents barristers and solicitors about resisting applications for wasted costs.

The Bar Council initiative gives high achieving Year 12 students from low - income backgrounds a coveted week's work experience with a barrister as well as training in advocacy.

Law firms are increasingly recruiting paralegals as they offer strong, unparalleled support to barristers and solicitors, especially during busy working periods.

Instead, they had a cost - sharing agreement, working as independent business but and practising together under the name Josephson Angus Barristers.

As a Chambers, we work with a number of pro bono legal assistance charities — such as the Bar Pro Bono Unit, the Environmental Law Foundation, and Advocates for International Development (A4ID)-- to identify cases where our barristers» expertise may be most usefuAs a Chambers, we work with a number of pro bono legal assistance charities — such as the Bar Pro Bono Unit, the Environmental Law Foundation, and Advocates for International Development (A4ID)-- to identify cases where our barristers» expertise may be most usefuas the Bar Pro Bono Unit, the Environmental Law Foundation, and Advocates for International Development (A4ID)-- to identify cases where our barristers» expertise may be most useful.

Barrister and brother of the prime minister Alex Cameron QC is working free of charge in a bid to halt the trial, he successfully argued at Southwark Crown Court earlier this month that the three defendants would not get a fair trial as they were not sufficiently represented.

Bruce has a degree in chartered surveying and initially qualified and worked as a non-practising barrister before qualifying as a solicitor.

This does not have to be with a solicitor or barrister; nowadays L aw firms are increasingly recruiting paralegals as they offer strong, unparalleled support to barristers and solicitors, especially during busy working periods.

Before this time, English law reports, now known as Nominate Reports, were produced on an individual basis by barristers, with a series lasting from one or two volumes, to the working life of the author barrister.

Qualified as both a barrister and solicitor, Mark is a full member of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP) and has worked in the Channel Islands, Asia and London.

I recall in the late 1980's a barrister curing me of any desire to work as a legal technology consultant with him when he quietly confided, «At $ 3,000 per day, I prefer to use this pen».

«After I graduated, I practised as a solicitor for eight years and it was only when I began working closely with barristers on cases that I discovered the majority of them weren't throwbacks to the 17th century locked away in ivory towers, but were actually friendly and relatively normal.

The Clerks and staff at 1 Crown Office Row have always been seen as integral to this Chambers» family, and they have a longstanding reputation of providing a distinguished quality of work alongside the work of the barristers.

Later e.g. at barristers» conferences, and also at court in expert witness conferences, the opportunity to work as a team becomes more prominent and assistance is often given to the Court additionally by this means.

A third called on solicitors» firms and barristers» chambers «to unite in ruling out unpaid work experience as exploitative and potentially unlawful».

As a result, a section of the legal profession (the barrister bar) finds itself working in a ridiculously complicated system set up by others for reasons that make sense to the others.

The research drew on a survey of 200 respondents: they were overwhelmingly women (78 %); more than six out of ten described themselves as «white British» (63 %); and more than a quarter worked as solicitors or trainee solicitors (28 %) and 13 % as barristers or pupil barristers.

From the point of view of this class — a class I'll just call «lawyers» — it's too clear for argument that (i) law has things to do so that some instrumentalist theory has to be adopted; (ii) few things are simple, so that no single theory will work in every case, whether it's «wealth maximization», «corrective justice», «contract as promise», compensation or deterrence; and (iii) the demands of practice, the solicitor's need to create relations which will be projected into the (uncertain) future and to control the risks his or her client faces, the barrister's need to conduct litigation at a price the parties can afford and in the context of the adversary system, powerfully limit the consideration that a lawyer can give to theory.

Issues from chambers over the AGFS have existed for several months though active calls to reject work grew much louder in March as fear spread that criminal barristers» fees could fall by as much as 50 per cent.

Criminal barristers typically visit numerous courts around the country and a barrister would work for as long as they are needed.

The set of more than 50 barristers, who work as individual barristers taking personal responsibility for their cases, is led by Robin Allen QC and performs the whole range of civil court, tribunal and appellate work from the smallest claims to high profile cases in the Supreme Court and European Court of Justice.

Since graduating from law school, Cristina has been working for various barristers, solicitors as well as private clients and most notably, in October 2015 she was instructed by a firm of solicitors to represent a private client in a complex case of unfair dismissal and discrimination in the Central London Employment Tribunal.

Hailed as «an exceptionally good lawyer, who works extremely hard»; praised for «establishing a great rapport with solicitors and clients»; «the most client - friendly barrister at the English Bar» and who «achieves plaudits not just for a span of work notable for both its depth and breadth, but also for a combination of personality and perspicacity that few might match.»

This equates to hundreds of hours» worth of time that barristers, solicitors and law firms have to spend manually managing documents such as disclosure and contractual agreements, instead of working on higher value tasks that really matter and generate profit.

Marc then commenced work at the Private Bar of Queensland as a Barrister - at - Law, undertaking a broad range of matters concerning commercial, property, industrial, family and criminal law.

(Barrister immigration specialist charged by BSB with advertising for immigration work on a direct / public access basis; BSB had in the meantime approved Code of Conduct changes allowing immigration work under the Bar Public Access scheme; written submissions drafted by Marc Beaumont as to this and other issues; on receipt of those submissions, BSB offered no evidence).

We work with other professional advisers (such as trade mark attorneys, barristers and labelling consultants) to provide seamless solutions for those of you wishing to take your products to market.

His 17 year background as a civil barrister and his ability to identify and focus on the issues at the heart of the dispute provide a firm foundation for his work as a civil & commercial mediator.

It is important to note that bankruptcy attorney works for hand in hand with other law professionals such as solicitors and barristers.