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    The Faculty of Advocates (Scottish Gaelic: Dàmh an Luchd-tagraidh) is an independent body of lawyers who have been admitted to practise as advocates before...
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    has a service company, Faculty Services Ltd, to which almost all Advocates belong, which organized the stables (sets of Advocates or barristers' chambers)...
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  • dean of the Faculty of Advocates, also known as the dean of faculty, is the head of the Faculty of Advocates, the independent body for advocates in Scotland...
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    James Wolffe (category Deans of the Faculty of Advocates)
    advocate who served as Lord Advocate from 2016 to 2021. He previously served as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 2014 to 2016, and Vice-Dean of the...
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    The Advocates Library, founded in 1682, is the law library of the Faculty of Advocates, in Edinburgh. It served as the national deposit library of Scotland...
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    who served as Dean of the Faculty of Advocates from 2016 until 2020. From 1999 to 2007, he was a Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament...
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    the Irish system. Faculty of Advocates, the rough equivalent in Scotland to the English Inns of Court Doctors' Commons The Inns of Court & City Yeomanry...
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    Solicitor advocates have a code for advocacy which is almost identical to the Bar code of conduct. Criticism is levelled against solicitor advocates due to...
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    bodies are the Faculty of Advocates, the Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet and the Society of Solicitors in the Supreme Courts of Scotland. The...
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    the Advocate General for Scotland. The Lord Advocate is not head of the Faculty of Advocates; that position is held by the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates...
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