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or appellate, Clerk to any Justice of the Peace, Registrar of any Court, Receiver or Liquidator, whether Official, Provisional, Assistant or Deputy, or person acting in any of these or similar capacities, and no Clerk to any such person as aforesaid, or to any Judge, Barrister, Conveyancer, Pleader, Equity Draftsman, Clerk of the Peace, or to any officer in any Court of Justice, and no person acting in the capacity of any such Clerk, shall be admitted as a Student at any Inn of Court until such person shall have entirely and bona fide ceased to act or practise in any of the capacities above-named or described; and if on the Rolls of any Court, shall have taken his name off the Rolls thereof.
8. The following forms shall be adopted by each of the four Inns of Court on application for admission as Students :-
I, aged
of
the
Son of
1
in the county of
[add father's profession, if any, and the condition in life and occupation, if any, of the Applicant]
do hereby declare that I am desirous of being admitted a Student of the Honourable Society of
for the purpose of being called to the Bar, or of practising under the Bar, and that I will not, either directly or indirectly, apply for or take out any certificate to practise, directly or indirectly, as a Pleader, or Conveyancer, or Draftsman in Equity, without the special permission of the Masters of the Bench of the said Society,
And I do hereby further declare that I am not an Attorney at Law, a Solicitor, a Writer to the Signet, a Writer of the Scotch Courts, a Proctor, a Notary Public, a Clerk in Chancery, a Parliamentary Agent, an Agent in any Court original or appellate, a Clerk to any Justice of the Peace, a Registrar of any Court, a Receiver, or Liquidator, either Official, Provisional, Assistant or Deputy, nor do I act, directly or indirectly, in any such or similar capacity, or in the capacity of Clerk of or to any of the persons above described, or as Clerk of or to any Judge, Barrister, Conveyancer, Pleader, Equity Draftsman, or Clerk of the Peace, or of or to any officer in any Court of Justice.
Dated this
day of
(Signature)
We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that we believe the above-named to be a gentleman of respectability, and a proper person to be admitted a Member of the said Society.
Approved,
Barristers of
Treasurer, or, in his absence, by two Benchers.
9. Every person applying to be admitted as a Student shall pay the sum of One Guinea upon application for the Form of Admission; and the sums so paid shall form part of the Common Fund hereinafter mentioned.
Keeping Terms.
10. The word Terms in these Regulations, except where otherwise expressed, shall mean the Terms as fixed by the Inns of Court for the purpose of Calls to the Bar.
11. Students who shall at the same time be Members of any of the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, London, Durham, the Royal University of Ireland, St. Andrew's, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, or the Victoria University, Manchester, shall be enabled to keep Terms by dining in the halls of their respective Inns of Court any three days in each Term.
12. Students who shall not at the same time be Members of any of the said Universities shall be enabled to keep Terms by dining in the halls of their respective Inns of Court any six days in each Term.
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13. No day's attendance in Hall shall be available for the purpose of keeping Term, unless the Student attending shall have been present at the grace before dinner, during the whole of dinner, and until the concluding grace shall have been said, unless the acting Treasurer on any day during dinner shall think fit to permit the Students to leave earlier.
14. A Student who, previously to his admission at an Inn of Court, was a Solicitor in practice for not less than five years (and, in accordance with Rule 7, has ceased to be a Solicitor before his admission as a Student) may be examined for Call to the Bar without keeping any Terms, and may be called to the Bar upon passing the public Examination required by these Rules, without keeping any Terms;
Provided that such Solicitor has given at least twelve months' notice in writing to each of the Four Inns of Court, and to the Incorporated Law Society, of his intention to seek Call to the Bar, and produces a Certificate signed by two Members of the Council of the Incorporated Law Society that he is a fit and proper person to be called to the Bar.
15. A Student coming under the last preceding Rule may be exempted by the Masters of the Bench of the Inn to which he seeks Admission from passing the Examination preliminary to Admission,
Calling to the Bar.
16. Every Student shall have attained the age of Twenty-one years before being called to the Bar.
17. Every Student, except such as come under Rule 14, shall have kept Twelve Terms before being called to the Bar, unless any Term or Terms shall have been dispensed with under special circumstances by the Benchers of his Inn;
Provided that in no case shall a dispensation of a greater number than Two Terms be granted.
18. No Student shall be called to the Bar, unless such Student shall, to the satisfaction of the Council of Legal Education, have passed a Public Examination for the purpose of ascertaining his fitness to be called to the Bar, and have obtained from the Council a Certificate of having passed such Examination.
19. No Student shall be called to the Bar until his name and description shall have been screened in the Hall, Benchers' Room, and Treasurer's or Steward's Office, of the Inn of which he is a Student, fourteen days in Term before such call.
20. The name and description of every such Student shall be sent to the other Inns, and shall also be screened for the same space of time in their respective Halls, Benchers' Rooms, and Treasurers' or Stewards' Offices.
21. No Call to the Bar shall take place except during a Term and such call shall be made on the same day by each of the Inns, namely, on the Sixteenth day of each Term, unless such day shall happen to be Saturday or Sunday, and in such case on the Monday after.
Certificates to practise under the Bar.
22. No Student shall be allowed to take out a Certificate to practise under the Bar without the special permission of the Masters of the Bench of the Inn of Court of which he is a Student, to be given by order of such Masters, and no such permission shall be granted to any Student unless he shall be qualified to be called to the Bar, and the regulations, as to screening names in the Halls, Benchers' Rooms, and Treasurers' or Stewards' Offices, applicable to Students desirous of being called to the Bar, shall be applicable to Students desirous of practising under the Bar. Such permission shall be granted for one year only from the date thereof, but may be renewed annually.
Council of Legal Education.
23. The Council of Legal Education shall consist of twenty Benchers, five to be nominated by each Inn of Court, of whom four shall be a quorum. The Members of the Council shall remain in office for two years, and each Inn shall have power to fill up any vacancy that may occur in the number of its nominees during that period. To this Council shall be entrusted the power and duty of superintending the Education and Examination of Students, and of...
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