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    A bencher or Master of the Bench is a senior member of an Inn of Court in England and Wales or the Inns of Court in Northern Ireland, or the Honorable...
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  • Crossbencher (redirect from Cross-bencher)
    A crossbencher is a minor party or independent member of some legislatures, such as the British House of Lords and the Parliament of Australia. They take...
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    Backbencher (redirect from Back bencher)
    In Westminster and other parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a member of parliament (MP) or a legislator who occupies no governmental office and is...
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    Martin Bencher (Scandinavia) A/S is a Scandinavian shipping and freight forwarding company, which was founded in the United Kingdom in 1881. Founded in...
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  • Back Benchers (Class ka Pehla Din) is an Indian celebrity quiz show hosted by film producer and director, Farah Khan. The show debuted on Flipkart Video...
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    decided that only Benchers and Governors should have a voice in calling people to the Bar and, by the end of the sixteenth century, Benchers were almost entirely...
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  • The Nigerian Body of Benchers is a professional body concerned with the admission of successful candidates at the Nigerian Law School Bar Final Examination...
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    honorary benchers are known as "Royal Benchers". The first of these was the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, who was made a Royal Bencher when he opened...
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    Gray's Inn (section Benchers)
    governing council called "Pension", made up of the Masters of the Bench (or "benchers") and led by the Treasurer, who is elected to serve a one-year term. The...
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    making recommendations to the Benchers. The final decisions on these Memorials are taken by the Benchers. The Benchers also have the exclusive power of...
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    Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and...
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    membership: students, barristers, and masters of the bench or "benchers". The benchers constitute the governing body for each Inn and appoint new members...
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  • Court, the first female High Court judge in England, and the first female bencher. Lane was born on 9 August 1905 in Bowden, Cheshire to Edward Alexander...
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    lawyer from outside the metropolitan area of St John's, one is to be a bencher, and one is to be a lawyer with less than ten years at the bar. The appointments...
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    council called "Parliament", made up of the Masters of the Bench (or "Benchers"), and led by the Treasurer, who is elected to serve a one-year term. The...
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    to the special remainder by his daughter Rosemary. She sat as a cross-bencher in the House of Lords. The barony became extinct on her death without issue...
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  • professor at City University, London in 1980. In 1981, he was elected Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple, London. He was a governor of Harrow School, Sherborne...
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  • hold the role. In 2017, she was made the first Gibraltarian woman to be Bencher of the Middle Temple. She read law at the University of Bristol graduating...
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    Honorable Society of King’s Inns Honorary Bencher  England The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Honorary Bencher  Canada Friends of the McGill Library...
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  • served on the board of United College in Winnipeg, and was a Bencher (1952–1968) and Life Bencher (1968–1982) of the Law Society of Manitoba. McGirr died in...
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  • William McMahon replaced Gorton as prime minister. Gorton remained a front bencher but relations with Fraser remained strained. The economy was weakening...
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    1999. His samadhi lies at Karma Bhumi, Delhi. Sharma was made an honorary bencher and Master of Lincoln's Inn in 1993. He was conferred an honorary degree...
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    Conservative Chief Whip Captain Ernest George Pretyman Sir Edward Coates: "a back bencher and one of the rank and file" 5 23 October 1922 Bonar Law Unionist peers...
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    shades really well. Though his films impressed both critics and front benchers, he did not become a super hero, a sought after actor. He had appeared...
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    1986. Starmer became a barrister in 1987 at the Middle Temple, then a bencher in 2009. He served as a legal officer for the campaign group Liberty until...
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  • hereditary peers to sit in the Lords was abolished. She sat as a cross-bencher, and was concerned with social justice. She lived in Ashby-de-la-Zouch...
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    Spencer-Churchill, of Chartwell in the County of Kent. She sat as a cross-bencher, but her growing deafness precluded her taking a regular part in parliamentary...
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    starred in Kootathil Oruthan, which deals with the love story of a middle bencher and its trailer has had a very positive reaction from the audience and...
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  • lawyer and politician, of Furnival's Inn and Lincoln's Inn (where he was bencher and reader in English law). He acted, along with Oliver St John, as co-counsel...
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  • Abdul Hassan 2017 Chal Man Jeetva Jaiye Suryakant Gujarati film 2018 Back Bencher Principal Gujarati film 2019 Baap Re Baap Purushottam (The Baap) Gujarati...
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