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In 2022 can a barrister do anything that a solicitor or a litigant in person for that matter cannot?
It seems that the exclusive privileges of barristers to appear in higher courts has slowly been eroded by various acts including in 1990 and 1999. I assume the answer is yes, but Does anything remain of exclusive privileges?
And yet it seems that a…
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What are the correct parameters of usage for addressing parties as one’s “learned friend”?
Does a solicitor with right of audience address their opposing barrister as their learned friend? Do they get addressed as the barrister’s learned friend?
What of a litigant in person?
And in all cases is it to be used in place of all other terms of…
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