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Legal Terms- Chambers
chambers pl. n. 1. The offices occupied by a barrister or group of barristers. (The phrase is also used to refer to a group of barristers who work out of a designated chamber.) 2. A judge, master, or district judge's private office. The public is not permitted to attend the majority of *interim procedures, which take place in private chambers. However, if the case is one of public importance, the judge may render a decision in public. 3. An alternate to the entire 15-member court that consists of a three-judge panel of the *International Court of Justice. One instance of the chambers being used is in the Gulf of Maine Case [1984] ICJ Rep 246.


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