R v Visitors to the Inns of Court, ex parte Calder and Another

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date21 January 1993
Date21 January 1993
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
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28 cases
  • R Bar Standards Board v Disciplinary Tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court, Natasha Sivanandan
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 16 May 2014
    ...not a sentence under Regulation 19. (See also Mackay J in Connerty v BSB [D 2004/082] 10 July 2008.) The principle in R v Visitors to the Inns of Court ex-parte Calder [1994] QB 1 does not apply. 3 On 6 September 2012 disciplinary proceedings were determined in favour of the interested part......
  • Damian McCarthy v Visitors to the Inns of Court Bar Standards Board (Interested Party)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 25 October 2013
    ...their jurisdiction, failed to exercise it, abused their powers or acted in breach of the rules of natural justice. In R v Visitors to the Inns of Court ex parte Calder [1994] QB 1 the Court of Appeal applied the principles applicable to charitable corporations identified in Ex parte Page [1......
  • O'Connor v Bar Standards Board
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 6 December 2017
    ...appeals from decisions of the benchers of the several Inns of Court is now vested in the judges of the High Court". (See R v Visitors to the Inns of Court, Ex p Calder [1994] QB 1 per Sir Donald Nicholls V-C at pp 35D-E). This arrangement continued notwithstanding the transfer by the Inns o......
  • CS’ Application
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Northern Ireland)
    • 30 April 2015
    ...where the independence and objectivity of its conclusions are not open to challenge. In Regina v Visitors to the Inns of Court and Another [1994] QB 1 Nicholls VC said at page 42: “There remains Miss Calder’s fourth ground of appeal; that the visitors misunderstood their role. She contends ......
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5 books & journal articles
  • Table of cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Second Edition
    • 15 June 2006
    ...Turner, [1970] 2 Q.B. 321, [1970] 2 All E.R. 281 (C.A.)............................. 179 R. v. Visitors to Inns of Court, Ex. P. Calder, [1994] Q.B. 1 (D.C.) ................... 108 Ramsbottom v. Morning (1991), 48 C.P.C (2d) 177 (Ont. Ct. Gen. Div.) .......... 147 Rondel v. Worsley, [1966]......
  • Students as Litigants: a Public Law or a Private Law Issue?
    • Ireland
    • Hibernian Law Journal No. 14-2015, January 2015
    • 1 January 2015
    ...review is available in cases of excess of jurisdiction or breach of natural justice ( R v Visitors to the Inns of Court, ex parte Calder [1994] 1 QB 1). Doubts have been expressed whether this exclusivity is compatible with Art. 6 ECHR (see e.g. T. Kaye, “Academic judgment, the university V......
  • The Duty to Clients: Checking Zealous Partisanship
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility. Second Edition
    • 15 June 2006
    ...clients’ quest for justice might be sacrif‌iced to or compromised by a dubious 22 See R. v. Visitors to Inns of Court, Ex. P. Calder , [1994] Q.B. 1 (D.C.). The Duty to Client s: Checking Zealous Partisanship 109 commitment to professional solidarity or established interests. Without single......
  • Legal Profession
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2006, December 2006
    • 1 December 2006
    ...historical attribute that the system of discipline is a private or domestic system (see R v Visitors to the Inns of Court, ex parte Calder[1994] QB 1). The determination of misconduct on the part of a barrister is made by a disciplinary tribunal and an appeal lies from the tribunal to the V......
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