What is Queenâs Counsel?
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Queen's Counsel (postnominal QC), during the reign of a male sovereign known as King's Counsel (KC), are, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland barristers, or in Scotland advocates, appointed by letters patent to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law". They do not constitute a separate order or degree of lawyers. They are, however, more than merely a professional rank, as their status is conferred by the Crown and recognised by the courts. In order to join the Counsel you have to serve as a barrister for at least 15 years.\n\nQueen's Counsel have the privilege of sitting within the Bar of court, and wear silk gowns of a special design (hence the informal title Silks). \n\nHistory: England\nThe Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, and King's Sergeants were King's Counsel in Ordinary in the Kingdom of England. The first Queen's Counsel "Extraordinary" was Sir Francis Bacon, who was given a patent giving him precedence at the Bar in 1597, and formally styled King's Counsel in 1603 (W. S. Holdsworth, History of English Law (1938) vi 473-4; Patent Rolls, 2 Jac I p 12 m 15).\n\nThe obsolete rank of Serjeant-at-Law was formerly more senior, though it was overtaken formally in the 1670s, and professionally in the course of the late eighteenth century by the newer rank. The Attorney-General and Solicitor-General, had similarly succeeded the King's Serjeants as leaders of the Bar in Tudor times, though not technically senior until 1623 (except for the two senior King's Serjeants) and 1813 respectively (JH Baker, "The English Legal Profession 1450-1550" in Wilfred Prest (ed), Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America (1981), 20). But the Queen's Counsel only emerged into eminence and integrity in the early 1830s, prior to when they were relatively few in number. It became the standard means of recognising that a barrister was a senior member of the profession, and the numbers multiplied accordingly (Daniel Duman, The English and Colonial Bars in the Nineteenth Century (1983) 35.) It became of greater professional importance to become a QC, and the serjeants gradually declined. The QCs inherited not merely the prestige of the serjeants, but enjoyed priority before the courts.\n\nQueen's Counsel and serjeants were prohibited, at least from the mid-nineteenth century, from doing chamber work. They were briefed together with a junior barrister, and they had to have chambers in London (Duman 98-99). Till 1920 in England and Wales they had to have a licence to appear in criminal cases for the defence. On appointment, QCs renounced the preparation of written pleadings and other chamber practices.\n\nQueen's Counsel were traditionally selected from barristers, rather than from lawyers in general. This was because they were counsel appointed to conduct court work on behalf of the Crown. Although the limitations on private employment were gradually relaxed, they continued to be selected from barristers, who had the sole right of audience to the higher courts. However, in 1994 solicitors of England and Wales were entitled to be admitted to the upper courts. Some 275 were so practising in 1995. In 1995 these solicitors alone became entitled to apply for appointment as Queen's Counsel. The first such was appointed March 1997 (On 27 March 1997, of the 68 new QCs announced, two were solicitors. These were Arthur Marriott (53), partner of the London office of the American law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering, and Dr Lawrence Collins (55), a partner of the City law firm of Herbert Smith who was subsequently appointed as a High Court Judge.\n\nThe first women to be appointed as King's Counsel were Helen Normanton and Rose Heilbron in 1949.\n\nThe appointment of further Queen's Counsel was suspended in 2003 and it was widely expected that the system would be abolished, although existing QCs were not affected by the suspension. However, a vigorou
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A proper answer to your legal questions will only come from a criminal lawyer. I can tell you generally that a factum is simply a pleading in an appeal case. It is the document where you lay out your claim/response.\n\nIf, however, you have complaints against the work of individual lawyers, you should contact the Law Society in the province where they practice.\n\nIn Ontario, it is the Law Society of Upper Canada: http://www.lsuc.on.ca/\n\nIn Quebec, it is Le Barreau du Québec: http://www.barreau.qc.ca/
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A phrase commonly applied to counsel employed to assist in the preparation or management of the case, or its presentation on appeal, but who is not the principal attorney for the party.\n\nI work for a corporate law firm and our of counsel attorneys assist with cases like associates do, however, they have many more years of experience, meaning their rates are higher, and they also can be the attorney in charge of clients like partners of the firm.\n\nTo me, they are between the associate and partner positions, in so many words.  They assist with cases, but they also bring in clients as their own.
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its a Constitutional monarchy\n\nthe queen owns it all and is the supreme power, but Parliament run and administer the country.\n\nthe powers she is suppose to have can't ever really be used, she's more of a big walking advertisement for the UK - but...she's the head of some parts of the army, all the navy and all the air force...so she could...in theory. do what the king of Thailand did a while back...if needs be.
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Are you asking when a person is entitled to counsel under the 6th Amendment?\n\nIf so, "Right to counsel granted by the United States Constitution means at least that a person is entitled to help of lawyer at or after the time that judicial  proceedings have been initiated against him whether by way of formal  charge, preliminary  hearing, indictment, information, or arraignment."
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go to your high school and see your guidance counsellor.
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of counsel: A phrase which indicates that the person named is assisting another lawyer in a cause or the trial of a case. A common designation for associate attorneys to distinguish them from the attorneys of record in a cause.\n\nThis is sometimes used for an experienced attorney in a firm who does not want to be a partner. They will be paid a salary, but will not have a partnership stake in the firm.\n\nHere is a better definition:\n\nOf counsel is in reference to an attorney who is not actively involved in the day-to-day work of a law firm, but may be available in particular matters or for consultation. This designation often identifies a semi-retired partner, an attorney who occasionally uses the office for a few clients or one who only consults on a particular case or on his/her specialty. Putting the name of the attorney "of counsel" on a law firm's stationery gives the office the prestige of the lawyer's name and reputation, without requiring his/her full-time presence.
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A section of road that is neither council or privatly owned. If anyone at all owns it, it's proably the queen.\n\nYou can actually murder someone on an unadopted road and the police can't touch you!
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is it the little husband king of the Queen of Hearts?
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George see the andswer to the previous questions - HM the Queen is given her role as a heridatary birth right. It passes to her first born son should she die or adbdicate. The preople have no say in the Monarch and it is done solely by position of birth.
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who cares? there will be a bried court intrigue, and some cousin would emerge. Or they'll have a queen (it works for Britain, right?).
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I am a Girl Scout leader in the United States. I am not familiar with the "Queen Scout" award, but I will be happy to assist you if I can.\nYou are welcome to email me,\nleaderladysue@yahoo.com
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Queen Elizabeth is the head and the caribou side is the tail.
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Your friend should be viewed as simply offering you "counsel", aka "advice".  If it's common sense advice, and not frivolous, it should have no bearing.  Then again, if you stand before the court and state "I really didn't want to do this, but Harry egged me into it" it might not really weigh in your favor, unless the case is crystal clear.
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consulte your counselor
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are you english? doesnt matter! i salute you! i can die happy that im not the only one with my eyes open! what does the queen do? her son makes 9 appointments a year which is...opening  a private school..shaking hands with other fat fuckers who take my pay. why is she here? she has never done anything for me or anyone i know. under the name of the queen we enslaved millions way to fucking go you can leave now. again thank you for taking the time to open your eyes and see that they all have an easy life at the cost of the normal working man. God save the queen? nope rather he didnt
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Talking about things with someone trained to guide you in making the right decisions for yourself.\n\nPsychological counseling is what's generally meant, but there is career counseling, academic counseling, family counseling, marriage (and pre-marriage counseling).