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private court
There is no association to something called British Accredited Bar. There is no private oath. No need.
Any attorney at the bench will inquire as to your registration number. And he or she will be terribly reluctant to postpone if the Brethren is all prepared for the trial that day. So go into the Bar with your defendant/friend and get it on the record the attorney in the black robe is depriving the defendant of counsel. When the judge asks respond, "I am well read and learned in the law common." That passage from the transcripts is all you need provided the defendant objects and when overruled takes exception for use in appeal. For the rest of the trial, he just blunders and flubbs because he has no counsel to direct him.
Once a young woman on trial was deprived and the judge of course spotted the fatal flaw - depriving her of counsel. So he allowed me to stay, sitting behind her in the gallery where she could easily have conversations with me. At the point where the judge offered to sentence her, he obviously deprived her of counsel, "Do not look at David Merrill. You make this decision yourself without his counsel." It was a large courtroom but I could sense the winking from the bench. She looked at me and I ignored her. She asked me, against his command what she was to do. I made no response. The judge was throwing her the case on appeal.
Sure enough, I was able to file the appeal without her even coming to the courthouse with me. I was her attorney of record so as not to throw the trial court for depriving her of counsel.
It is a private court system folks. That is the secret oath. The codes are copyrighted because the annotations and selection of citations is copyrighted. All one has to do is open the parameters; think a little outside the box for a moment.
Regards,
David Merrill.
P.S. Unfortunately I had a conversation with the plaintiff and she found out about it. She screamed at me about that and I shouted back - we were through talking at all levels and I never found out about the appeal but I doubt it went over well.
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