Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

legal practitioner

A lawyer. "Legal practitioners may be either barristers, special pleaders not at the bar, certified conveyancers, or solicitors. The three latter may recover their fees, but the first may not, their acting being deemed of a voluntary nature, and their fees merely in the light of honorary payments; and it follows from this, that no action lies against them for negligence or unakilfulness." John Indermaur, Principles of the Common Law 169 (Edmund H. Bennett ed., 1st Am. ed. 1878).