Queen's Counsel were traditionally selected from barristers, rather than from lawyers in general, because they were counsel appointed to conduct court work on behalf of the Crown.

Guidance given to counsel by the Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales states: " The fact that the victim made a sexual advance on the defendant does not, of itself, automatically provide the defendant with a defence of self-defence for the actions that they then take.

In 1908 Healy acted as counsel for Sir Arthur Vicars, former Ulster King of Arms, in connection with the 1908 investigation of the previous year's theft of the Irish Crown Jewels.

Holmes having concluded his speech, counsel for the Crown, Mr Henn, replied.

It was the dispute between Philip the Fair and Pope Boniface VIII which led to the States-General of 1302 ; the king of France desired that, in addition to the Great Officers of the Crown of France, he receive the counsel from the three estates in this serious crisis.

They always included representatives of the First Estate ( clergy ), Second Estate ( the nobility ), and Third Estate ( commoners: all others ), and monarchs always summoned them either to grant subsidies or to advise the Crown, to give aid and counsel.

" The federal Cabinet and Crown counsel took the position that if the British Crown in council, parliament, and on the bench was to exercise its sovereignty over Canada, it did so at the request of the federal ministers only.

He acted as junior counsel for the Crown in the prosecutions of Thomas Paine in absentia for seditious libel ( 1792 ), and John Horne Tooke for high treason ( 1794 ).

During the Parliamentary recess of the summer of 1797 he was senior counsel for the Crown in the prosecution of John Binns for sedition.

They issue general instructions for the guidance of Crown counsel, procurators fiscal, sheriff clerks and other public officials ; transmits instructions from Crown counsel to procurators fiscal about prosecutions ; and in consultation with the Clerk of Justiciary, arranges sittings of the High Court of Justiciary.

On 16 December 1696 he made his reputation with his speech as counsel for the Crown in the proceedings against Sir John Fenwick in the House of Lords ; and shortly before the commencement of Hilary term 1696 – 7 he was made king's serjeant and knighted.

An appellant in Person is someone who by their own choice, or because their former counsel is criticised and has withdrawn, is conducting their own appeal at a Crown Court or at the Court of Appeal Criminal Division.

" The federal Cabinet and Crown counsel took the position that if the British Crown in council, parliament, and on the bench was to exercise its residual sovereignty over Canada, it did so at the request of the federal ministers of the Crown only.

Crown counsel in criminal proceedings are customarily addressed and referred to as " Mr Crown " or " Madam Crown.

He issues general instructions from and on behalf of the Lord Advocate for the guidance of Crown counsel, procurators fiscal, sheriff clerks and other public officials, transmits instructions from Crown counsel to procurators fiscal about prosecutions, and, subject to the direction of the Principal Clerk of Justiciary, arranges sittings of the High Court of Justiciary.

In fact, the territory of the Castilian Crown actually comprised all other autonomous communities within Spain with the exception of Aragon, Balearic Islands, Valencia and Catalonia, which all belonged to the late Crown of Aragon, and Navarre, heir of the older Kingdom of the same name.

From 1986 until 2005, the Triple Crown television rights comprised a single package.

Otto von Habsburg ( 20 November 1912 4 July 2011 ), also known by his royal name as Archduke Otto of Austria, was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1918, a realm which comprised modern-day Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, and parts of Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.

The idea comprised the lands in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belarus and included the creation of a Duchy of Courland and a Duchy of Estonia and Livonia that would be in personal union with the Crown of Prussia under the German Empire's occupied territory Ober Ost before the end of World War I covering the territories of the Medieval Livonia what are now Latvia and Estonia.

The list of " Publick Offices " mentioned in the Act comprised " The Salt Office, The Stamp Office, The Tax Office, The Navy Office, The Navy Victualling Office, The Publick Lottery Office, The Hawkers and Pedlar Office, The Hackney Coach Office, The Surveyor General of the Crown Lands Office, The Auditors of the Imprest Office, The Pipe Office, The Office of the Duchy of Lancaster, The Office of the Duchy of Cornwall, The Office of Ordinance, The King's Bargemaster's House, The King's Bargehouses ".

As in Scotland, the Crown lands in Ireland comprised a miscellany of feudal dues, land acquired for forts, and forfeitures especially after 1688.

He attended the common schools and in 1800 moved to Poultney, Vermont, and still later to the town of Crown Point ( later Schroon ), which is now comprised in the town of North Hudson, New York.

This part comprised the Imperial Crown, parts of the coronation vestments, the Imperial Orb ( a globus cruciger ), the Imperial Sceptre, the Imperial Sword, the Ceremonial Sword, the Imperial Cross, the Holy Lance, and all other reliquiaries except St. Stephen's Purse.

Also, during World War I the prison held some of Britain's priceless national treasures including the Domesday Book, the ring and the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.

This letter reserved 10 % of the loot for the Crown, and Henry Gilbert's The Book of Pirates suggests that the King may have fronted some of the money for the voyage himself.

By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

To further demonstrate Saudi dissatisfaction with the regime in Baghdad, Crown Prince Abdallah permitted the media to videotape his meeting with some of the opponents of Saddam Hussein.

In 2010, the House of Commons Justice Committee, conducting an inquiry into the Crown dependencies, found that the Jersey government and those of the other islands were " with some important caveats, content with their relationship with the Ministry of Justice ".

The funeral service, attended by high dignitaries, including the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, did not pass without some turbulence.

After the British were defeated in the Thirteen Colonies, its troops helped evacuate approximately 30, 000 United Empire Loyalists ( American Tories ), who settled in Nova Scotia, with land grants by the Crown as some compensation for their losses.

Like other common law jurisdictions, the Crown can also agree to withdraw some charges against the defendant in exchange for a guilty plea.

These correspond with some parts of the medieval Crown of Aragon ( concretely Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencia and La Franja in Spain, Northern Catalonia in France, the city of Alghero in Italy, and Andorra ).

Eugene, who was accompanied by Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, made some attempts to relieve the siege, but never made any decisive attacks against the besieging army owing to its size and relatively poor quality of the troops under his command.

* September 11 – Six men steal some of the former French Crown jewels from a warehouse where the revolutionary government had stored them.

Antipater was the author of short elegiacs, some of which are preserved in the Greek Anthology, e. g., " Crown of Meleager ".

Partly this was land that had always belonged to the Crown, while other parts were sold or donated like the more than 10 % of the island ( located in the northern bush area, with some of the largest remaining kauri forests ) that was gifted to the Crown by farmer Max Burrill in 1984.

( For some years, the baron's council governed the country in the name of the Holy Crown ).

In 1431 he went to Milan where on 25 November he received the Iron Crown ; after which he remained for some time at Siena, negotiating for his coronation as emperor and for the recognition of the Council of Basel by Pope Eugenius IV.

Although the islands which presently form the British Virgin Islands have been under British control since 1672, a number of other islands came under the control of the British Crown ( some more than once ) during the subsequent period, but no longer form part of the Territory.

" Essex also asserted that Cecil had stated that none in the world but the Infanta of Spain had right to the Crown of England, whereupon Cecil ( who had been following the trial at a doorway concealed behind some tapestry ) stepped out to make a dramatic denial, going down on his knees to give thanks to God for the opportunity.

This is attested in some surviving styles for e. g., British earls, marquesses, and dukes are still addressed by the Crown on ceremonial occasions as high and noble princes ( cf.

As Crown appointees, mayors also have some responsibility for overseeing the work of the municipality, its policies and relations with other government bodies.

The first, called to grant massive war taxation to the Crown, turned into a parliamentary revolution, with the Commons ( supported to some extent by the Lords ) venting their grievances at decades of crippling taxation, misgovernment and suspected endemic corruption among the ruling classes.

Eliason's diamond may have been acquired by King George IV of the United Kingdom, possibly via Caroline of Brunswick ; however there is no record of the ownership in the Royal Archives at Windsor, but some secondary evidence exists in the form of contemporary writings and artwork, and George IV tended to co-mingle the state property of the Crown Jewels with family heirlooms and his own personal property.

The 19th of last Month in the Evening, I received Intelligence from General Gage by Sea of the Rebels having commenced Hostilities in the Province of the Massachusetts, and Requesting I would send the 7th Regiment with some Companies of Canadians and Indians to Crown Point, in order to make a Diversion, and favour his Operations.

" Though the first French and British colonizers of Canada interpreted the hereditary nature of some indigenous North American chieftainships as a form of monarchy, it is generally accepted that Canada has been a territory of a monarch or a monarchy in its own right only since the establishment of New France in the early 17th century ; according to historian Jacques Monet, the Canadian Crown is one of the few that have survived through uninterrupted succession since before its inception.

In actual history, Archimedes shares some of the elements of the mad scientist, but was closer to the more benign archetype of the absent-minded professor ( anecdotally, at least-read the story of the Golden Crown or the accounts of his death for examples ).