National Bar of Talossa

Royal Talossan Bar

Current Head: Litz Cjantscheir

Function: To supervise the practice of law in Talossa.

The Royal Talossan Bar (RTB) is a mandatory (integrated) bar & a voluntary legal association of Talossan Lawyers (sorry to disappoint those that thought the was the other "bar") that was established by the The Talossan Bar Act (32RZ11). Prior to this Act, the practice of law was largely unregulated and citizens of Talossa in need of legal services had no assurance that the lawyers they hired had had even minimum legal training or any legal training at all. To address this situation, the Ziu passed the Talossan Bar Act to make it mandatory for "any person wishing to practise law as a barrister, solicitor, lawyer, or attorney" to be a member of the Royal Talossan Bar. Therefore, lawyers (or any legal professionals) are required to join the bar in order to practice law in a Talossan Court.

The use of the term "bar" to mean "the whole body of lawyers, the legal profession" comes ultimately from English custom. In the early 16th century, a railing divided the hall in the Inns of Court, with students occupying the body of the hall and readers or Benchers on the other side. Students who officially became lawyers crossed the symbolic physical barrier and were "admitted to the bar". Later, this was popularly assumed to mean the wooden railing marking off the area around the judge's seat in a courtroom, where prisoners stood for arraignment and where a barrister stood to plead. In modern courtrooms, a railing may still be in place to enclose the space which is occupied by legal counsel as well as the criminal defendants and civil litigants who have business pending before the court.

The current Chancellor of the Royal Talossan Bar is Litz Cjantscheir.

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