Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Audience
n. A hearing before judges. See right of audience.
Court of Audience
Hist. Eccles. law. A court in which the two archbishops exercise personal jurisdiction. ( This court was abolished in 1963. "Just as the bishop did not deprive himself of all jurisdiction by delegation to an official or commissary, so the archbishop did not originally deprive himself of all jurisdiction by delegation to the official principal. He possessed a jurisdiction concurrent with that of the court of the Arches, which was exercised in the court of Audience. In later times this jurisdiction was exercised by the judge of the court of Audience. At one time the archbishop may have exercised a considerable part of this jurisdiction in this court." 1 William Holdsworth, A History of English Law 601 (7th ed. 1956).
Preaudience
English law. The right of a senior barrister to be heard in court before other barristers.
captive-audience doctrine
1. Constitutional law. The principle that when the listener cannot, as a practical matter, escape from intrusive speech, the speech can be restricted. 2. Labor law. The rule that prohibits either party to a union election from making a speech on company time to a mass assembly of employees within 24 hours of an election. - Also termed captive-audience rule
right of audience
A right to appear and be heard in a given court. ( The term is chiefly used in England to denote the right of a certain type of lawyer to appear in a certain type of court.