Wednesday 30 October 2013
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Barrister
A Barrister (also known as Barrister-at-Law or Bar-at-Law) is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common lawjurisdictions with split legal professions.
Barristers specialize in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings, and giving
expert legal opinions. They can be contrasted with solicitors – the other class of lawyer in split
professions – who have more direct access to clients, and may do
transactional-type legal work. Barristers are rarely hired by clients directly
but instead are retained (or instructed) by solicitors to act on behalf of
clients.
The historical difference between
the two professions – and the only essential difference in England and
Wales today – is that
solicitors are attorneys,
which means that they can act in the place of their client for legal purposes
(as in signing contracts) and may conduct litigation on their behalf by making applications
to the court, writing letters in litigation to the client's opponent, and so
on. A barrister is not an attorney and is usually forbidden, either by law or
professional rules or both, from "conducting" litigation. This means
that, while the barrister speaks on the client's behalf in court, he or she can
do so only when instructed by a solicitor or certain other qualified
professional clients, such as patent agents.
Many countries with common law legal
systems, such as New Zealand have abandoned the separate systems of
legal representation, and an attorney can perform all the functions of each.
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