The Forums of Glennain

An Act to make new provision for the training and preparation of citizens for the civil service, membership in Parliament, and the legal profession.
WHEREAS the methods presently in use for the training of His Majesty's subjects for service in the domestic administration, the diplomatic service, Parliament, and the Royal Courts of Justice have resulted in officials that do not fully comprehend their powers and responsibilities, leaving them unable to serve the Crown and people as they ought to do :

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Temporal and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows :

I. The Education Act 2004 is hereby repealed.

II. An educational institution to be known as King James' College ("the College") is hereby created and established as a body corporate under the law, the same to be governed by this Act and any other Statutes that the Visitor of the College may with the advice and consent of the Chancellor of the College think fit to make.

III. Upon entrance into the College, students shall select one of two courses of study, namely: domestic governance, training the student in the governmental principles and institutions of the Kingdom; or diplomacy, encompassing studies concerning foreign states and Hanoverian relations with the same. The College may by Statute establish further courses of study, and make modifications to those set out in this Act, provided that nothing is done with prejudice to the role of the College in preparing citizens for service of the Crown.

IV. The completion of a course of study shall be measured by the successful passage of an examination, to be administered by means of a written essay or a verbal interview by a College official. The College may by Statute define the academic degrees and distinctions to be conferred upon those who have passed examinations. Students whom possess extensive knowledge of a subject upon entering the College shall be allowed to proceed to examination immediately, and shall be accorded distinction equal to that which they would have recieved after the normal course of study.

V. The Lord High Chancellor shall be Visitor of the College, by right of which office he shall oversee the activities of the College as a representative of the Crown, and preside over ceremonial functions. In the absence of a Chancellor of the College, the Visitor shall act as Chancellor Pro Tempore.

VI. The graduates of the College may elect a Chancellor of the College to lead all educational activities. The Chancellor shall be authorised and empowered to employ and dismiss the Professors of the College, save those Regius Professors which the Crown may by Commission appoint, and may furthermore determine what lectures and other activities shall comprise the courses of study, and shall dictate the content of examinations.

VII. The Outer Temple ("the Inn"), an Inn of Court to train Hanoverian subjects in law and judicial procedure, is hereby created and established as a body corporate under the law. The Inn shall be governed by the provisions of this Act, and such Statutes as the Master of the Inn may establish.

VIII. The Lord High Chancellor shall be Master of the Inn by right of office, by which authority he shall have the exclusive prerogative of admitting students to the Inn, of determining the course of study to be taken by the same, and of dismissing students from the Inn.

IX. Upon the Master of the Inn signifying his satisfaction with the legal knowledge of a student, the same student shall be called to the Bar of a Royal Court of Justice, that is to say, declared to be competant to practise the law, after which calling to the Bar the student shall be termed member of the Inn. All members of the Inn are furthermore to be admitted to the Bar of any Court, on account of which privilege they shall be known as Barristers, and accorded the rank of Esquire.

X. No person shall be permitted to petition for appointment to an office under the Crown if he has not been awarded an academic degree by King James' College or called to the Bar, unless the same person is an active student at the College or an Inn of Court, nor shall any person whom has not been called to the Bar be allowed to act as legal counsel in the Royal Courts of Justice. The King may dispense with these requirement for any person He deems worthy by means of a Warrant under His Royal Sign-manual and Signet.

XI. The Tenth Section of this Act shall come into force upon such a day as the Lord High Chancellor may by Order appoint. All other Sections of this Act shall come into force upon the receipt of Royal Assent.