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rights of audience

rights of audience is the plural of right of audience.

Meaning of right of audience

Noun

right of audience (plural rights of audience)

  1. Right enjoyed by a class of persons (especially lawyers) to appear and practice in a court on behalf of that person's client.
    • Every person who immediately before 1 July 1997 enjoyed a right of audience before any court, magistrate, statutory tribunal or statutory board shall on and after that date continue to enjoy such right before the corresponding court, magistrate, tribunal or board of the HKSAR.1997, Provisional Legislative Council of Hong Kong, “Hong Kong Reunification Ordinance”, in Hong Kong Government Gazetteᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, page A23

Questions about rights of audience

What is rights of audience the plural of?
Rights of audience is the plural of right of audience.

Words near rights of audience in the dictionary

  1. Rightpondians
  2. rights
  3. rights issue
  4. rights issues
  5. rights of asylum
  6. rights of audience
  7. rights of entry
  8. rights of first refusal
  9. rights of passage
  10. rights of publicity
  11. rights of reentry

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