Sentence examples for Right of audience from inspiring English sources

Dr Williams said the security council needed to be reformed to give non-governmental groups "a right of audience".

The advocates had, and still have, the sole right of audience in the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary.

The right of audience in the Court of Session is possessed exclusively by members of the Faculty of Advocates (the Scottish Bar).

The Canadian author believes the use of the handmaid's uniform is both flexible and powerful, allowing women to protest in locations where they do not have a right of audience.

In 1986 he was elevated to the court of appeal, and soon became the first judge to welcome Lord Mackay's plan in 1989 for a right of audience for solicitors in the high court.

They forged a letter, according to prosecutors, from the office of Eliot Spitzer, then the attorney general, attesting to how Ms. Sengupta "exercised rights of audience" in New York, using a term associated with British courts.

From "Rites" to "Rights" of Audience: The Utilities and Contingencies of the Public's Role in Court-Based Processes in Representations of Justice 195 – 236 (with Judith Resnik) (eds. Antoine Masson and Kevin O'Connor, P.I.E. – Peter Lang, 2007).

A group of lawyers were called to the Irish Bar by the Chief Justice of Ireland and asked if they wanted to use their new rights of audience to make an application to the court (an invitation universally declined).

Three reasons were given: first, that historically judges controlled rights of audience, second, that judges are the consumers of advocacy services and third, practicality… in the present cash-strapped times, who but the judges will in practice carry out the assessments…?

But this pluralism can be misused, when a tiny minority (backed by big capital) demands the same rights of audience and representation – e.g. in the case of climate change – as the overwhelming majority of scientists.

Following the BVC is pupillage--a 1-year period of in-service training, split between the first 'nonpractising' 6 months, when you will shadow an experienced barrister, and the second 'practising' 6 months, when you will be entitled to supply legal services and exercise rights of audience under supervision.