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This is a list of disbarments affecting notable lawyers in the United States. Name Jurisdiction(s) Date disbarred Date reinstated Reason/Details Spiro T. Agnew:
Disbarment, also known as striking off, is the removal of a lawyer from a bar association or the practice of law, thus revoking their law license or admission to practice law.
Setting standards of conduct for barristers and authorising barristers to practise; Monitoring the service provided by barristers to assure quality; Setting the education and training requirements for becoming a barrister as well as setting continuing training requirements to ensure that barristers’ skills are maintained throughout their ...
Roger North (1651–1734), English barrister, biographer and amateur musician. Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley (1716-1789), Solicitor General for England and Wales (1762-1763), Speaker of the House of Commons (1770-1780). Fletcher Norton (1744-1820), Scottish barrister, politician, and joint Founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1783).
English barrister with a successful practice who became a Queen's Counsel in 1978 before inheriting a hereditary peerage and joining the House of Lords [14] 1961: Samuel Eson Johnson Ecoma: former Chief Judge of Cross River State, Nigeria. 1967: Aitzaz Ahsan: Pakistani advocate, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan [4] 1967
Until the coming into force of Schedule 33 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 on 5 April 2004, the following were disqualified: The judiciary; Those concerned with administration of justice, e.g. policemen, solicitors, barristers, forensic scientists or prison wardens; The clergy, e.g. men in holy orders or regular ministers of any religious ...
The General Council of the Bar was created in 1894 to deal with breaches of a barrister's professional standards, something that had previously been handled by the judiciary. [3] Along with the Inns of Court it formed the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar in 1974, a union that was broken up on 1 January 1987 following a report by Lord ...
Bassett then practised as a barrister on the South Eastern Circuit in England. He was appointed a County Court Judge there in 1955 and retired in 1965. He died in 1974. [20] His son was Harold Frank McGhie Bassett (1923–1990), a cardiothoracic surgeon elected FRCS in 1954. [34] Sir Rawden John Afamado Temple, CBE: Inner Temple (1931) [35]