law agent


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law agent

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(Professions) (in Scotland) a solicitor holding a certificate from the Law Society of Scotland and thereby entitled to appear for a client in any Sheriff Court
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Noun1.law agent - a solicitor in Scotlandlaw agent - a solicitor in Scotland    
solicitor - a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents
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He was the second son of John Wordsworth, a lawyer, and law agent for the Earl of Lonsdale.
Six months' exemption from call-up was also granted to a 50-year-old law agent who was married and the sole partner in a firm of solicitors.
It reported how a court at Sunderland "was crowded to excess to hear the particulars of a serious charge against Mr John Kidson (son of John Pexall Kidson, , the Earl of Durham's law agent at Sunderland), for having committed an assault upon Mr John Hernaman, proprietor of the Newcastle Journal, in the High-street of Bishop-Wearmouth.
Furthermore, no notice is required where the contract is made directly with the owner or the owner's common law agent (RCW 60.04.031[2][a]).
Since the announcement the golf course committee had received a letter from the Scottish Command Law Agent in Edinburgh, stating the department did not propose to take over the golf course.
The call has been made by local councillor Fidelma Healy Eames who claims that the local authority should have a hydrologist in the same way as it has a law agent.
But it is another thing for a law agent in a particular case to use his position to do so."
He added: "A private citizen may choose to make such criticisms or attacks on the courts and the law, but it is another thing for a law agent to use his position in that case to do so."
He added he would consult the council's law agent before returning to the councillors with draft regulations on the use of the street.

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