A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include arguing cases in courts and tribunals,drafting legal pleadings,researching the law and giving legal opinions.
In law,a judgment,also spelled judgement,is a decision of a court regarding the rights and liabilities of parties in a legal action or proceeding. Judgments also generally provide the court's explanation of why it has chosen to make a particular court order.
A tribunal,generally,is any person or institution with authority to judge,adjudicate on,or determine claims or disputes—whether or not it is called a tribunal in its title. For example,an advocate who appears before a court with a single judge could describe that judge as "their tribunal." Many governmental bodies are titled "tribunals" to emphasize that they are not courts of normal jurisdiction. For example,the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was a body specially constituted under international law;in Great Britain,employment tribunals are bodies set up to hear specific employment disputes. In many cases,the word tribunal implies a judicial body with a lesser degree of formality than a court,in which the normal rules of evidence and procedure may not apply,and whose presiding officers are frequently neither judges nor magistrates. Private judicial bodies are also often styled "tribunals." The word tribunal,however,is not conclusive of a body's function—for example,in Great Britain,the Employment Appeal Tribunal is a superior court of record.
A public defender is a lawyer appointed to represent people who otherwise cannot reasonably afford to hire a lawyer to defend themselves in a trial. Several countries provide people with public defenders,including the UK,Belgium,Hungary and Singapore,and some states of Australia. Brazil is the only country in which an office of government-paid lawyers with the specific purpose of providing full legal assistance and representation to the needy free of charge is established in the constitution. The Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution,as interpreted by the Supreme Court,requires the US government to provide legal counsel to indigent defendants in criminal cases. Public defenders in the United States are lawyers employed by or under contract with county,state or federal governments.
William Montague Charles Gummow is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia,the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. He was appointed to the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong on 8 April 2013 as a non-permanent judge from other common law jurisdictions.
Schapelle Leigh Corby is an Australian woman who was convicted of smuggling cannabis into Indonesia. She spent nine years imprisoned on the Indonesian island of Bali in Kerobokan Prison. Since her arrest Corby has publicly maintained that the drugs were planted in her bodyboard bag and that she did not know about them. Her trial and conviction were a major focus of attention for the Australian media.
The Supreme Court of Queensland is the highest court in the Australian State of Queensland. It was formerly the Brisbane Supreme Court,in the colony of Queensland.
Default judgment is a binding judgment in favor of either party based on some failure to take action by the other party. Most often,it is a judgment in favor of a plaintiff when the defendant has not responded to a summons or has failed to appear before a court of law. The failure to take action is the default. The default judgment is the relief requested in the party's original petition.
In England,the First-tier Tribunal,more commonly known as the Mental Health Tribunal,is an independent quasi-judicial body established to safeguard the rights of persons subject to the Mental Health Act 1983. It provides for consideration of appeals against the medical detention or forced treatment of a person who was deemed to be suffering from a mental disorder that was associated with a risk to the health or safety of that person or others.
A duty solicitor,duty counsel,or duty lawyer,is a solicitor whose services are available to a person either suspected of,or charged with,a criminal offence free of charge,if that person does not have access to a solicitor of their own and usually if it is judged by a means test that they cannot afford one. The system is operative in several Commonwealth countries,including the United Kingdom,Australia,New Zealand and Canada.
The District Court of Queensland(QDC) is the second tier in the court hierarchy of Queensland,Australia. The Court deals with serious criminal offences such as rape,armed robbery and fraud. Juries are used to decide if defendants are guilty or not guilty.
The Queensland Court of Disputed Returns is a court that adjudicates disputes concerning Queensland Government and local government elections and state referendums in Queensland,Australia. The Court is a division of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
John Harris Byrne is a retired Australian jurist who previously served as Senior Judge Administrator of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Having been a judge of that court since 1989,he was one of the court's most experienced judges. He was also Chair of the National Judicial College of Australia,a body which provides programs and professional development resources to judicial officers in Australia. He is now a private Commercial Arbitrator.
Justice Henry George Fryberg was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland,Australia.
Nudd v Taylor,was a court case,decided in the Supreme Court of Queensland on 30 August 2000. The case concerned Australian Private International Law,specifically giving a Queensland authority to the application of the Moçambique rule.
Civil procedure in South Africa is the formal rules and standards that courts follow in that country when adjudicating civil suits. The legal realm is divided broadly into substantive and procedural law. Substantive law is that law which defines the contents of rights and obligations between legal subjects;procedural law regulates how those rights and obligations are enforced. These rules govern how a lawsuit or case may be commenced,and what kind of service of process is required,along with the types of pleadings or statements of case,motions or applications,and orders allowed in civil cases,the timing and manner of depositions and discovery or disclosure,the conduct of trials,the process for judgment,various available remedies,and how the courts and clerks are to function.
In Australia,trust money in the legal industry is the money a law practice holds on behalf of a client or other people in the course of,or in connection with,the provision of legal services. Trust money is required to be held by a law firm on a client's behalf in a trust account with a bank and is highly regulated. A lawyer or law firm should not appropriate a client's trust money until certain regulations are met,which are different for each state in Australia. The Australian system regulating lawyers and their trust accounts has been labeled by the Rudd Government as an "unwieldy monster".
Jean Hazel Dalton is justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland in the Trial Division. She was appointed to the court in 2011.
The Scottish Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) is a specialist tribunal in Scotland with jurisdiction over serious disciplinary issues within the solicitor profession in Scotland.
Timothy Francis Carmody is an Australian judge who was the Chief Justice of Queensland between 8 July 2014 and 1 July 2015. His previous roles include work as a police officer,barrister,Queensland Crime Commissioner,Family Court of Australia judge,and Chief Magistrate of the Magistrates Court of Queensland. He also presided over the 2013 Child Protection Commission of Inquiry.
