Today, the corps consists of a worldwide organization of more than 730 Judge Advocates, 30 limited duty officers ( law ), 500 enlisted members and nearly 275 civilian personnel, serving under the direction of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy.

Unless the cases are of particular importance, such as the Lockerbie trial held at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, the prosecutions are normally ( but not always ) led by Advocates Depute who are known collectively as Crown Counsel and are experienced members of the Faculty of Advocates normally appointed for a limited period of three years.

:* advocates are very limited as to business activities they perform ; the following actions are forbidden by the Advocates ' Code of Ethics as colliding with the advocate's profession, while being fully allowed to be performed by legal advisors:

Advocates of proportional representation suggest that a coalition government leads to more consensus-based politics, in that a government comprising differing parties ( often based on different ideologies ) would need to concur in regard to governmental policy.

Advocates denounced the German government leaders who signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918, as the " November Criminals ".

Advocates of free-market socialism, such as Jaroslav Vanek, argue that genuine free markets are not possible under conditions of private ownership over productive property because the class differences and inequalities in income and power that ensue from this arrangement enable interests of the dominant class to skew the market to their favor, either in the form of monopoly and market power, or by utilizing their wealth and resources to pass government regulations and policies that benefit their specific business interests.

Advocates of Keynesian economics argue that private sector decisions sometimes lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcomes which require active policy responses by the public sector, particularly monetary policy actions by the central bank and fiscal policy actions by the government to stabilize output over the business cycle.

In December 2009, a 96-page report titled Human Rights in Ethiopia: Through the Eyes of the Oromo Diaspora, compiled by the Advocates for Human Rights, documented human rights violations against the Oromo in Ethiopia under three successive regimes: the Abyssinian Empire under Haile Selassie, the Marxist Derg and the current Ethiopian government of the Ethiopian People ’ s Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), dominated by members of the Tigray People ’ s Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and which was accused to have arrested approximately 20, 000 suspected OLF members, to have driven most OLF leadership into exile, and to have effectively neutralized the OLF as a political force in Ethiopia.

Advocates of highway development and suburban participation in urban government theorize that cities which protect themselves from the suburbs, forcing them to become self-sufficient small towns, cutting off the freeways, forcing commuters into subways, etc., are committing suicide by forcing business out into the suburbs.

Advocates of an expanded government role follow instead in alternative streams of progressivism ; in the Anglosphere ( English-speaking countries, notably the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand ) this is associated with institutional economics and, at the macroeconomic level, with Keynesian economics.

In most years, only a few students withdraw in the face of an honor charge or after investigations and closed hearings conducted by the Executive Committee of the Student Body, the University's elected student government ( with the accused counseled by Honor Advocates, often law students ).

Advocates of sound finance ( in the US known as fiscal conservatism ) reject Keynesianism and, in the strongest form, argue that government should always run a balanced budget ( and a surplus to pay down any outstanding debt ), and that deficit spending is always bad policy.

Advocates of offshore banking often characterise government regulation as a form of tax on domestic banks, reducing interest rates on deposits.

Advocates of free markets say that the only feasible way that a business could close entry to a field and therefore be able to raise prices free of competitive forces, i. e. be a coercive monopoly, is with the aid of government in restricting competition.

Advocates of a laissez-faire economic policy are quick to assert ( barring private criminal conduct ) that a coercive monopoly can only come about through government intervention, and defend these situations as non-coercive monopolies in which government should not intervene.

Until devolution in 1999, all Lord Advocates were, by convention, members of the United Kingdom government, although the post was not normally in the Cabinet.

Advocates of New Buddhism, like Suzuki's teachers Kosen and his successor Shaku Soen, saw this movement as a defense of Buddhism against government persecution, and also saw it as a way to bring their nation into the modern world as a competitive cultural force.

The World Congress of Advocates of Peace in Paris ( 20 April 1949 ) repeated the Cominform line that the world was divided between " a non-aggressive Soviet group and a war-minded imperialistic group, headed by the United States government ".

Advocates in the Labour government have included Alan Milburn, the former health secretary, and Hazel Blears.

Advocates of marijuana legalization argue that the budgetary impact of removing cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act and legalizing its use in the United States could save billions by reducing government spending for prohibition enforcement in the criminal justice system.

* Advocates for low-income New Yorkers at all levels of government.

Advocates included musicians, record labels, government officials, and the Seattle-based Pacific Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Advocates, survivors and victims ' relatives filed a suit in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights against the Peruvian government for violation of human rights.

Advocates of ECAs have assertions of their own, such as the following: export credits allow impoverished importers to purchase needed goods that would otherwise be unaffordable ; export credits are components of a broader strategy of trade policies ; and government involvement can achieve results that the private sector cannot, such as applying greater pressure on a recalcitrant borrower.

Advocates have defined astrology as a symbolic language, an art form, a science, and a method of divination.

Advocates of linguistic polygenesis do not accept the notion of a fully developed Proto-Human language and consider the world's language families independent developments of a proto-linguistic form of communication used by archaic Homo sapiens.

Advocates of ontological innocence see in the grammatical plural simply another way to refer to exactly the same things that the singular form commits us to.

Advocates often suggest local purchasing as a form of moral purchasing.

Advocates of the traditional form of the Stations ending with the body of Jesus being placed in the tomb say the Stations are intended as a meditation on the atoning death of Jesus, and not as a complete picture of His life, death, and resurrection.

His target was Scottish political conservatism, in the form of the Faculty of Advocates, and he brought on young Whig advocates imbued with a due reverence for the law.

Advocates of soft balancing have proposed a number of mechanisms through which states engage in this form of balancing, including diplomacy, diplomatic coalitions, international institutions and agreements, statecraft mechanisms such as territorial denial, as well as economic initiatives and multilateral and regional economic endeavours that exclude the superpower in the process.

Advocates of using ' ageism ' also believe it makes common cause with older people fighting against their own form of age discrimination.

In 1999 The Pride Collaborative merged with COLLEAGUES, a national organization that sponsored the annual Out & Equal Summit aimed at human resource professionals and LGBT employees, to form Out & Equal Workplace Advocates, and the current organizational structure was born.

It was after returning to Edinburgh in 1752, as he wrote in My Own Life, that " the Faculty of Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library ".

Advocates of laissez-faire capitalism, such as some economists of the Austrian School, argue that there is no such phenomenon as " market failures ".

There are no permanent Advocates General attached to the General Court ( unlike the European Court of Justice which has 8 Advocates General ).

Advocates of laissez-faire capitalism advocate that the only type of monopoly that should be broken up is what they call a coercive monopoly, that is the persistent, exclusive control of a vitally needed resource, good, or service such that the community is at the mercy of the controller, and where there are no suppliers of the same or substitute goods to which the consumer can turn.

* Advocates of subjectivism claim that there is no objective reality or truth, and therefore anyone can be considered infallible, since whatever is within a person's consciousness is considered the real and the true.

* Advocates of reason and rationality claim that man can gain certainty of knowledge, but that no man can arrive at certainty by substituting the percepts of reality for the arbitrary say-so of another man.

Advocates of this technique point out that it has the virtue of simplicity: no specialized statistical software is required, and the results are readily understood by business people.

On 6 March he convened a meeting of the Faculty of Advocates at which Muir, with no one to speak in his defence, was unanimously expelled and his name struck from the register.

* Crimaldi, Laura, " Homeless Advocates Urge no Diversion of Shelter Funds ", Boston Herald, Wednesday, February 14, 2007.

Erskine was educated for the law and joined the Faculty of Advocates in 1719 and followed the career of an Advocate for some years, apparently with no obvious distinction.

Advocates of technological progress however argue that even if admittedly " progress may have its price ", without technical innovation there would be no progress at all ; the same people who criticize technology also depend on it for their everyday existence.

* Advocates a " no punting " strategy on 4th down plays, as well as going for a two-point conversion when trailing by one in the final seconds of a game, citing the higher expected value of a successful conversion vs. turning the ball over to the opponent, and bemoaning coaches who do not take the risk.