G n l Ba aran Er nen born in 1953, London , United Kingdom is the first female justice of the Supreme Court in Cyprus . ref name CypNet cite web author CypNet title G n l Ba aran Er nen url http www.cypnet.co.uk ncyprus people women eronen.html accessdate 2011 02 20 ref ref cite news author BBC title Cypriot hopes for the future url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi programmes crossing continents 2821599.stm accessdate 2011 02 20 work BBC News date 2003 03 05 ref Biography A London native, Er nen was born in 1953. Her mother and father, Sema and Orhan Ba aran, were Turkish Cypriot s who emigrated to the London in 1950 they had five children, of which Er nen was the only daughter. ref name kibrisgazetesi cite web author Kibris Gazetesi title KKTC nin ilk kad n yarg c G n l Er nen, 31 y ll k hizmetin ard ndan emekliye ayr ld url http www.kibrisgazetesi.com popup.php cat 2 news 108160 PageName Ic Haberler accessdate 2011 02 20 ref Inspired by watching her father working as a translator at the Old Bailey , Er nen decided at the age of seven to pursue a career in law. ref name kibrisgazetesi At the age of 22 Er nen qualified as a barrister from the Council of Legal Education as a Member of the Honourable Society of the Gray s Inn . In 1975, Er nen immigrated to Cyprus and in 1976 began establishing her career in the legal field, while also taking on employment as a part time English language English newsreader on Bayrak Television, a position she would retain until 1980. In 1976, she passed the Turkish Cypriot Bar Examinations and undertook a pupillage with mit S leyman Onan. In 1977, she opened her own practice, and three years later became the first female District Judge in Cyprus. In 1986, she was distinguished as the Senior District Judge, and in 1992 she became its President. Er nen broke ground again in 1994 when she was elevated to the Turkish Cypriot Supreme Court Bench as its first female, as well as its youngest, justice. She retired after 31 years of service. ref na ... more details
Robert Druitt 1814 1883 , was a medical writer . Druitt, the son of a medical practitioner at Wimborne , Dorsetshire , was born in December 1814. After four years pupillage with Mr. Charles Mayo, surgeon to the Winchester Hospital, he entered in 1834 as a medical student at King s College London King s College and the Middlesex Hospital in London . He became Worshipful Society of Apothecaries L.S.A. in 1836, and M.R.C.S. in 1837, and settled in general practice in Bruton Street, Berkeley Square . In 1839 he published the Surgeon s Vade Mecum, by which he is best known. Written in a very clear and simple style, it became a great favourite with students, and the production of successive editions occupied much of the author s time. The eleventh edition appeared in 1878, and in all more than forty thousand copies were sold. It was reprinted in America, and translated into several European languages. In 1845 Druitt became F.R.C.S. by examination, and in 1874 F.R.C.P., later receiving the Lambeth degree of M.D. He practised successfully for many years, and also engaged in much literary work, having for ten years 1862 72 edited the Medical Times and Gazette. He was an earnest advocate of improved sanitation, and from 1856 to 1867 was one of the medical officers of health for St. George s, Hanover Square. From 1864 to 1872 he was president of the Metropolitan Association of Medical Officers of Health, before which he delivered numerous valuable addresses. In 1872 his health broke down, and he for some time lived in Madras , whence he wrote some interesting Letters from Madras to the Medical Times and Gazette. On his retirement 370 medical men and other friends presented him with a cheque for 1,215l. in a silver cup, in evidence of their sympathy with him in a prolonged illness, induced by years of generous and unwearied labours in the cause of humanity, and as a proof of their appreciation of the services rendered by him as an author and sanitary reformer to both the public ... more details
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Dame Joyanne Winifred Bracewell , Order of the British Empire DBE , Queen s Counsel QC , Royal Society of Arts FRSA 5 July 1934 9 January 2007 was the most senior judge of the Family Division of the High Court of Justice at the time of her death, after the President of the Family Division . Early life and career Bracewell was born and raised in Manchester , the daughter of Jack and Lillian Bracewell. Her father worked in textiles. She was a child actress in two comedy films made in Manchester in 1948, Cup Tie Honeymoon and Holidays with Pay . She after being educated mostly home schooling at home , she studied at Manchester University Bachelor of Laws LLB , Master of Laws LLM . She married jazz musician Roy Copeland in 1963. They had one son and one daughter together. She was called to the barrister Bar at Gray s Inn in 1955, was in pupillage at the Bar 1955 56 and a Member of the Northern Circuit from 1955 to 1990. She was a Recorder judge Recorder of the Crown Court between 1975 and 1983, and was appointed Queen s Counsel QC in 1978. She was a Circuit judge UK Circuit Judge on the Northern Circuit from 1983 to 1986, moving to the Western Circuit from 1986 to 1990. Judicial career In 1990, she became the fifth woman to be appointed as High Court judge , after Elizabeth Lane , Rose Heilbron , Margaret Booth judge Margaret Booth , and Elizabeth Butler Sloss . As is customary, she was created Dame Commander of the British Empire DBE . She became well known as Hon. Mrs. Justice Bracewell . She was largely responsible for drafting, and oversaw the introduction of, the Children Act 1989 , and she served as Family Law Division Liaison Judge in the Royal Courts of Justice in London from 1990 to 1997, and was Chairman of the Children Act Advisory Committee from 1993 to 1997. She was involved in many high profile cases. In 2004, she was praised by Fathers4Justice as one of the more enlightened members of the judiciary after she gave a residence order to a father whose former ... 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 in 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 ... more details
Infobox UK legislation short title Age of Legal Capacity Scotland Act 1991 parliament United Kingdom Parliament long title An Act to make provision in the law of Scotland as to the legal capacity of persons under the age of 18 years to enter into transactions, as to the setting aside and ratification by the court of transactions entered into by such persons and as to guardians of persons under the age of 16 years to make provision in the law of Scotland relating to the time and date at which a person shall be taken to attain a particular age and for connected purposes. statute book chapter 1991 c. 50 introduced by territorial extent Scotland royal assent 25 July 1991 commencement 25 September 1991 repeal date amendments Children Scotland Act 1995 related legislation repealing legislation status Current original text http www.legislation.gov.uk ukpga 1991 50 enacted revised text http www.legislation.gov.uk ukpga 1991 50 The Age of Legal Capacity Scotland Act 1991 c.50 is an Act of Parliament Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which replaced the pre existing rule of pupillage and minority with a simpler rule that a person has full legal capacity at the age of 16. Under the previous Scots law derived from Roman law , a child to the age of 12 if female, or 14 if male, had legal status of pupil and was under legal control of an adult usually parent or parents deemed tutor . From that age until the age of majority the child had legal status of a minor , and might have a responsible adult deemed curator or have no responsible adult being referred to as fors familiated . The Scottish age of majority was originally 21 until reduced to 18 by the Age of Majority Scotland Act 1969 . Pupils lacked any capacity to enter into legal contracts. Minors had capacity to enter into contracts, which included the capacity to make a will law will , but subject to rights to have these reduced by a court in certain circumstances, and sometimes requiring their curators consent. The r ... more details
Infobox MP honorific prefix name Rehman Chishti honorific suffix Member of Parliament MP image alt caption office Member of Parliament United Kingdom Member of Parliament br for Gillingham and Rainham UK Parliament constituency Gillingham and Rainham parliament majority 8,680 18.6 term start 6 May 2010 term end predecessor Paul Clark successor birth date birth date and age 1978 10 4 df y birth place Muzaffarabad , Pakistan death date death place restingplace birthname nationality United Kingdom British party Conservative Party UK Conservative otherparty spouse relations children residence alma mater Aberystwyth University occupation profession cabinet committees Joint Committee on Human Rights , Joint Committee on the Defamation Bill portfolio religion signature signature alt website footnotes Rehman Chishti born 4 October 1978 ref cite web url http news.bbc.co.uk democracylive hi representatives profiles 35922.stm title Rehman Chishti MP publisher BBC News work Democracy Live date 5 June 2010 accessdate 25 July 2010 ref is a British Conservative Party UK Conservative politician who was elected MP for Gillingham and Rainham UK Parliament constituency Gillingham and Rainham in the United Kingdom general election, 2010 2010 general election . ref http www.rehmanchishti.com Rehman Chishti working hard for Gillingham and Rainham Rehman Chishti ref ref http www.kentnews.co.uk kent news Rehman Chishti takes Gillingham and Rainham newsinkent35628.aspx?news local Rehman Chishti takes Gillingham and Rainham Kent News, 7 May 2010 ref Born in Muzaffarabad , Pakistan , ref http www.ukwhoswho.com view article oupww whoswho U251330 ref Chishti studied law at Aberystwyth University , graduating in 2000. After completing his Bar exams at the Inns of Court School of Law in August 2001 Chisti was called to the Bar at Lincoln s Inn in the same year. Working briefly as a paralegal for a solicitors firm in Kent he then secured pupillage the following year at Goldsmith Chambers in London ... more details
in Kuala Lumpur as a pupillage pupil of Peter Mooney. Six months later he learned that the law ... of Malaysia to ask for the period of pupillage he was required to serve be shortened. Following ... the length of a pupillage stint. ref name CSK Career After being admitted to the Bar on 31 January ... more details
Infobox organization name Hong Kong Bar Association image2 formation 1949 status Company limited by guarantee headquarters LG2, High Court Hong Kong High Court , 38 Queensway , Hong Kong region served Hong Kong leader title Chairman leader name Mr Kumar Ramanathan Senior Counsel SC budget website http www.hkba.org hkba.org The Hong Kong Bar Association HKBA zh t is the professional regulatory body for barristers in Hong Kong , and was founded in 1949. Like other professional bodies , the HKBA has the authority to take disciplinary action to the members who breach the Code of Conduct of the Association. The Law Society of Hong Kong is the equivalent association for solicitor s in Hong Kong. Kumar Ramanathan Senior Counsel SC is the current Chairman of the Council of the HKBA, having been elected in 2011. Route to entry Students must first complete a basic degree in law , such as the Bachelor of Laws LLB , Juris Doctor JD or convert from another first degree with the Common Professional Examination CPE . They must then complete the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws PCLL at the University of Hong Kong , City University of Hong Kong or the Chinese University of Hong Kong . From 2008 onwards, all overseas applicants to the PCLL must satisfy each element of the http www.pcea.com.hk PCLL conversion programme . After finishing PCLL, prospective barristers will enter pupillage with a pupilmaster for a year after half a year they will gain rights of audience in court . Overseas barristers may, having at least three years experience, take the Barristers Qualification Examination to officially become a Hong Kong barrister. Additionally, lawyers of at least three years qualified experience may apply to switch membership of either the HKBA or the Law Society of Hong Kong . However, one may not enjoy membership of both entities at once. For example, the No. 1 ranked barrister in seniority in 2007, Sir John Swaine SC, switched to become a solicitor in 2002, but switched back ... more details
File George Mellish, Vanity Fair, 1876 12 30.jpg thumb George Mellish, caricature by Leslie Ward Spy in Vanity Fair British magazine Vanity Fair , 30 December 1876 Sir George Mellish 19 December 1814 15 June 1877 was an English barrister , judge of the Court of Appeal in Chancery , and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . Early life Born at East Tuddenham , Norfolk , Mellish was the second son of the Very Rev. Edward Mellish, Doctor of Divinity D.D. , Rector of the parish, who afterwards became Dean of Hereford , by his marriage to Elizabeth Jane Leigh, the daughter of the Rev. William Leigh, an earlier Dean of Hereford. His mother was a cousin of George Canning , who stood as godfather to Mellish. ref name AR The Annual Register of World Events A Review of the Year 1877 , Volume 119, Part II London Rivingtons, 1878 , p. 150 ref His paternal grandfather was William Mellish, of Blyth Hall and Hodsock Priory , Nottinghamshire. ref name WLM http www.nottingham.ac.uk manuscriptsandspecialcollections collectionsindepth family mellish biographies biographyofwilliamleighmellish 1813 1864 .aspx Biography of William Leigh Mellish 1813 1864 at nottingham.ac.uk, accessed 16 November 2011. ref Mellish attended Eton College Eton , where he fagging fagged for William Gladstone , ref Mr Gladstone s School Days, Good Literature , Vol. IV, No. 114 18 March 1873 , p. 121 ref participated in the Debating Society and was a wet bob , a sculler on the river. ref name AR He then went up to University College, Oxford , where he was a debater in the Oxford Union . ref name AR In 1836, he earned a Bachelor of Arts B.A. with a second class in Literae Humaniores classical honours . ref The Annual Register of World Events A Review of the Year 1836 , Volume 78, Part II, p. 259 London Baldwin & Craddock, 1837 . ref Legal career After Oxford, Mellish joined Lincoln s Inn and served his pupillage to a variety of notable lawyers. He practised as a special pleader for several years ... more details
Infobox ambassador honorific prefix Sir name Reginald Hibbert honorific suffix GCMG image alt order ambassador from United Kingdom country France term start 1979 term end 1982 predecessor Sir Nicholas Henderson successor John Fretwell Sir John Fretwell president Val ry Giscard d Estaing br Fran ois Mitterrand birth date 21 February 1922 birth place Ilford, Essex, England nationality British residence death date 5 October 2002 death place Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England alma mater Worcester College, Oxford spouse Ann Alun Pugh religion children website Sir Reginald Alfred Hibbert , Order of St Michael and St George GCMG 21 February 1922 5 October 2002 was a British diplomat. Career Reginald Hibbert was educated at Queen Elizabeth s Grammar School for Boys Queen Elizabeth s School, Barnet and Worcester College, Oxford where he took a war shortened course in modern history. After graduating in 1942 he volunteered for the army and was commissioned into the 4th Queen s Own Hussars 4th Hussars a tank regiment . In 1943 he was seconded to the Special Operations Executive and was parachuted into Albania, where he served as a liaison officer first with the nationalists, and then with the communist partisans. In 1944 he rejoined his regiment in Italy, serving as a troop commander until Demobilisation of the British Armed Forces after World War II demobilisation . After a further year at Oxford learning Russian he entered the Her Majesty s Diplomatic Service Foreign Service in 1946. In that year, before embarking on a more normal career, he had what he subsequently called a highly astonishing pupillage as a note taker and occasional interpreter in Russian for Ernest Bevin , the foreign secretary, in Moscow, Paris, and New York. Hibbert served in Bucharest , Vienna , Guatemala , Ankara and Brussels before volunteering for the post of Charg d Affaires in Ulan Bator , Mongolia, 1964 66. He then took a sabbatical research fellowship at Leeds University before being appointed in 1 ... more details
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PCLL redirects here. For the lacrosse league in the northeastern United States, see Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League . The Postgraduate Certificate in Laws PCLL is an intensive one year full time or two year part time professional legal education Hong Kong legal qualification programme in Hong Kong . It allows graduates to proceed to legal training before qualifying to practice as either a Barrister Barristers in Hong Kong barrister or a Solicitor Hong Kong solicitor in Hong Kong . The LL. of the abbreviation for the certificate is from the genitive plural legum of lex, legis f., law . The programme can be seen as the equivalent of the Legal Practice Course LPC or the Bar Professional Training Course BPTC in England and Wales , which focuses heavily on practical issues, unlike a first degree in law. Course providers There are three course providers in Hong Kong University of Hong Kong HKU City University of Hong Kong CityU CUHK Faculty of Law Chinese University of Hong Kong CUHK since September 2008 Qualification as a lawyer in Hong Kong As in England and Wales , the legal profession in Hong Kong consists of two branches solicitor s and barrister s. After successfully completing the PCLL Prospective solicitors go on to complete a two year training contract as a trainee solicitor to qualify. Prospective barristers, undertake six months of pupillage under a pupilmaster before being Call to the bar called to the Bar admitted as a barrister of Hong Kong, gaining limited rights of audience limited practice . After six more months of pupillage, he or she can commence full practice. PCLL admission requirements To be eligible for admission to the courses leading to the PCLL, an applicant must have completed their Bachelor of Laws LL.B. or equivalent legal studies either in Hong Kong or other common law jurisdictions, or have passed the Common Professional Examinations CPE or CPEC of Hong Kong or of England and Wales. Applicant will have to demonstrate competence in ... more details
practise independently they must first undertake 12 months of pupillage . The first six months of this period ... is known as pupillage or devilling . Devilling is compulsory for those barristers who wish to be members ... in pupillage formerly only six months before being admitted to the bar in their respective provincial ... more details
Multiple issues POV November 2011 copy edit November 2011 BLP sources March 2010 Infobox Officeholder honorific prefix small The Right Honourable small br name The Lord Irvine of Lairg honorific suffix br small Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council PC Queen s Counsel QC small office Lord Chancellor primeminister Tony Blair term start 2 May 1997 term end 16 June 2003 predecessor James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern The Lord Mackay of Clashfern successor Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton The Lord Falconer of Thoroton birth date bda 1940 6 23 df y birth place Inverness , Scotland , United Kingdom party Labour Party UK Labour spouse Alison Mary McNair alma mater University of Glasgow br Christ s College, Cambridge profession Barrister Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg , Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council PC , Queen s Counsel QC born 23 June 1940 , known as Derry Irvine , is a British lawyer and political figure who served as Lord Chancellor under his former pupillage pupil barrister Tony Blair . He became a figure of controversy in 1998, when details of the renovations carried out on his official residence were made public. They cost a total of 650,000, including hand printed wallpaper worth 59,000. ref name autogenerated1 cite news url http www.telegraph.co.uk news main.jhtml?xml news 2008 03 29 nmps129.xml work The Daily Telegraph location London title Michael Martin s home gets 1.7m makeover first1 Rachel last1 Sylvester first2 Robert last2 Winnett date 29 March 2008 accessdate 1 May 2010 ref Personal life Born in Inverness , Scotland , he studied Scots Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law University of Glasgow and became involved in debate debating with the Glasgow University Dialectic Society and at the Glasgow University Union , where he befriended contemporary Labourites Donald Dewar and John Smith UK politician John Smith . After studying English Law at Christ s College, Cambridge , he taught Law briefly ... more details
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