Special pleader

Special pleader

A special pleader was a practitioner in English law who specialised in drafting "pleadings", in modern terminology statements of case.

Up to the nineteenth century there were many rules, technicalities and difficulties in drafting pleadings and claims and defences could be dismissed for trivial errors. Some practitioners made it their business to frame pleadings, rather than to appear in court or to write legal opinions, and were called special pleaders. They were not necessarily barristers, but might be licensed to practise under the bar. At one time it was usual to practise for a time as a special pleader before call to the bar. The system had largely fallen into disuse as a specialism by the beginning of the twentieth century. [ [Anon.] (1911)]

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* [Anon.] (1911) " [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Pleading Pleading] ", "Encyclopaedia Britannica"


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