What is the difference among Lawyer, Advocate, Barrister, Attorney and more!

What is Difference among Lawyer Advocate Attorney Solicitor Barrister and prosecutor

 

In today's post we will learn about the commonly used terms and difference between them and I promise by the end of this video you will be able to understand all these terms easily and you will also able to understand when to use these terms and when not.

The first two terms are Lawyer and Barrister .Firstly we will understand about Lawyer, whom we call as Vakeel also.

Basically Lawyer is a person who has studied law means a law graduate. So the person who has law degree, whether of 3 years LLB course or 5 years. That person becomes lawyer. But being only a lawyer can you represent any client in the court and can you argue for their case in the court?

No you can't represent them in court or argue. The 2nd term Barrister is also similar to this If you have studied law in India, you become a Lawyer and if you have studied law in England, you become Barrister Only the terms are used differently but the meaning of both is same and similar to the Lawyer, Barrister also can't represent clients in the court, they can't argue on any case. When a Lawyer enroll himself with the Bar council, then he becomes Advocate we also call them as "Adhivakta".

So if you have completed law, then you have to give Bar Council of India Exam after passing the exam you will enroll there and you will get the license of practicing in court and you will get promoted from Lawyer to Advocate.

So basically if any person introduce himself as an Advocate it means that he has the license to practice and he can represent their client in the court. Basically this is the difference between a Lawyer and an Advocate. A Lawyer has only law degree he cannot argue in the court.

Whereas an Advocate is enrolled with the Bar council and he has the license to practice in the court. We will look at the three terms used for this also. Advocate, Senior Advocate and Advocate on Record. We learned about the advocate, they can represent clients in the court and can practice. Now who is Senior Advocate ?

This designation is given by Supreme court/ High court to those Advocates who has good amount of knowledge and experience means who has practice experience of more than 10 years and have appeared in many cases

and how many cases are in their favor, by seeing all these it is decided.

once who become Senior Advocate they wear different gown and coat and their fees also becomes expensive basically this designation of Senior Advocate is given on the basis of their special knowledge and experience.

now comes Advocate on Record (AOR) Do you know? That only an (AOR) can case a file in Supreme Court Generally every court has its rules, functions and procedures similarly Supreme court has its own rules so if everyone will approach Supreme Court, then their is probability that court's time will be wasted.

So that's why those who are registered on (AOR) only those Advocates can file a case in Supreme Court.

Any one can draft a case and can argue as well only for filing the case this requirement or restriction is their, that it should it done only by an (AOR) because they know the functions and rules of the Supreme Court You have pass Supreme Court AOR exam to become and AOR. The eligibility required for the SC AOR exam is one should have experience of more than 5 years and these 5 years is divided as (4 +1 year).

Means 4 years experience of any court plus 1 year practice experience under any AOR of Supreme Court and that AOR must have practice experience of more than 10 years. So this was the difference between an Advocate, Senior Advocate and Advocate on Record. Now we will discuss about Advocate general which we also call as Mahaadhivakta. 

What is the difference Between Lawyer, Advocate, Barrister, Attorney and more!