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            <text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our will and pleasure is that this pass by immediate Warrant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ELIZABETH THE SECOND &lt;/strong&gt;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 &lt;strong&gt;Rohan Anthony Pershad &lt;/strong&gt;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 &amp;amp;c. Witness &amp;amp;c.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Prepared by order of the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain&lt;/p&gt;</text>
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              <text>Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Revoking an Appointment as a Queen's Counsel [2016-03-09]</text>
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              <text>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.</text>
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              <text>Instrument is undated, but &lt;a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/2506230"&gt;the &lt;em&gt;Gazette&lt;/em&gt; notice&lt;/a&gt; indicates the date would have been 2016-03-09.</text>
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              <text>&lt;a href="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/47-48/30/section/2" title="Great Seal Act 1884"&gt;Great Seal Act 1884&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt; but the resulting Letters Patent are a prerogative instrument.&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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