Miscellaneous
No. 228.
Printed for the use of the Colunial Office.
ADMISSION OF ENGLISH AND IRISH BARRISTERS AND SCOTCH ADVOCATES TO PRACTISE IN COLONIAL COURTS.
Bahamas.
CROWN COLONIES.
Members of the English, Scotch, or Irish Bars may be admitted to practise in the Supreme Court. (Supreme Court Act, 1896, § 23).
Barbados.
Similar provision. (Act No. 31 of 1891.)
Bermuda.-Ditto. (Act No. 4 of 1905, § 45.)
British Guiana.-Ditto. (Ord. No. 18 of 1897, § 4.)
British Honduras.-Ditto, (Consolidated Laws cap. 8, § 11.)
Ceylon.-Ditto. (Ord. 1 of 1889, Sched. III. Rule 56. Vol II. Ceylon Laws Rev.
1907, p. 452.)
Falkland Islands.
Fiji.
Supreme Court Rules, 7 Nov., 1899, § 7 (made under Ordinance 2/98).
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"The Chief Justice may license during pleasure any fit and proper person to be an Attorney of the Supreme Court upon payment of £5 annually, and
any person not an Attorney of the Supreme Court may, with the consent of "the Chief Justice, advocate the cause of another, but no costs shall be allowed "in payment of any such service."
Barristers or advocates of Great Britain or Ireland may be admitted to practise
in the Colony. (Ord. No. VII. of 1875, § 11.)
Gambia.-Ditto. Rules of Supreme Court. Order LVIII., § 2. (Vol. 2, Laws, p. 221.) Gibraltar.-Ditto. Supreme Court Consolidated Order, 1888, § 12. Gold Coast.
Barristers or Advocates admitted in Great Britain or Ireland may practise in the Colony. (Ord. No. 4 of 1876, § 60.) Grenada.-Ditto. (Ord. No. 28 of 1896, § 41.) Hong Kong.-Ditto. (Ord. No. 1 of 1873, § 21.) Jamaica.-Ditto. (29 Vict. (Session 2), cap. 2.)
Leeward Islands.-Ditto. (Act No. 1 of 1881, § 19.) Malta.
be admitted to
The conditions generally required for admission to practise as an Advocate in the Courts of Malta are laid down in the laws of Organization and Civil Procedure (Ordinance No. IV. of 1854, Lib. 1, Tit. VII.). No special provision is made by these laws for the admission of Barristers-at-Law of England and Ireland, and Members of the Faculty of Advocates of Scotland, and the general conditions would therefore apply.
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