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The Chief Standing Counsel

Office, Duties, and Advocacy on Behalf of the State

Publisher
Eastern Book Company
Year
2024
Edition
Second Edition
Extent
184 pages
ISBN
Role
Author

The State is a different kind of client. It has no private interest; it holds a public trust. This book describes the office of the Chief Standing Counsel — an office held by the author across three successive terms at the Lucknow Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad — and sets out the particular discipline that attaches to advocacy on behalf of the State in constitutional proceedings.

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Table of contents

Contents.

  1. I.The Office — Historical and Statutory001
  2. II.Instructions, the Brief, and the Record029
  3. III.Appearing for the State under Article 226057
  4. IV.The Limits of Advocacy: When Not to Argue085
  5. V.Concession, Undertaking, and Consequence113
  6. VI.Relations with the Bar and the Bench141

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