Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Revoking an Appointment as a Queen's Counsel [2016-03-09]

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Title

Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Revoking an Appointment as a Queen's Counsel [2016-03-09]

Subject

Law
Great Seal

Description

Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth II directing the Lord Chancellor to pass Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm revoking the Letters Patent by which Rohan Pershad was appointed a Queen's Counsel.

Creator

Queen Elizabeth II

Source

FOI request

Date

Instrument is undated, but the Gazette notice indicates the date would have been 2016-03-09.

Contributor

T. Onslow

Relation

Great Seal Act 1884 but the resulting Letters Patent are a prerogative instrument.

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Transcript

Our will and pleasure is that this pass by immediate Warrant

ELIZABETH THE SECOND by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith To Rohan Anthony Pershad Esquire Greeting Whereas We did by Our Letters Patent under Our Great Seal bearing date at Westminster the seventh day of April in the sixtieth year of Our Reign constitute ordain and appoint you the aforesaid Rohan Anthony Pershad to be Our Counsel learned in the Law during Our Pleasure as by the said Letters Patent relation being thereto made will more fully and at large appear Now Know Ye that by these Presents We do determine the aforesaid Letters Patent and all things therein contained and do remove and discharge you from the said Office and therefore We strictly command you the said Rohan Anthony Pershad that you desist altogether from all further execution of the said Office In Witness &c. Witness &c.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

This contains Your Majesty’s revocation of Your Majesty’s Letters Patent of the seventh day of April 2011 appointing Rohan Anthony Pershad, Esquire, one of Your Majesty’s Counsel learned in the Law.

 

Prepared by order of the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain

Ornamentation

Black and white Royal Arms.

Printed in Times New Roman.

Royal name is capitalized and in boldface and features what is probably a misaligned drop cap.

Recipient's name is in boldface.

Special Features

Instrument is unsigned.

Files

Citation

Queen Elizabeth II, “Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Revoking an Appointment as a Queen's Counsel [2016-03-09],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/517.

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