I was amused to read in the Gazette this week that Lord Hunt has indicated that it is 'likely' that solicitors will ultimately benefit from an increase in legal aid fees, after the new fee arrangements are implemented. Under the arrangements advocacy fees for solicitors and barristers will, of course, be unified, although for some reason it has been decided that barristers' fees will be reduced to the level of solicitors, rather than solicitors' fees increased to the level of barristers. Funny that. Still, I'm sure that Lord Hunt's words will have solicitors flocking to do legal aid advocacy work...
Friday, June 20, 2008
Pull the other one
I was amused to read in the Gazette this week that Lord Hunt has indicated that it is 'likely' that solicitors will ultimately benefit from an increase in legal aid fees, after the new fee arrangements are implemented. Under the arrangements advocacy fees for solicitors and barristers will, of course, be unified, although for some reason it has been decided that barristers' fees will be reduced to the level of solicitors, rather than solicitors' fees increased to the level of barristers. Funny that. Still, I'm sure that Lord Hunt's words will have solicitors flocking to do legal aid advocacy work...
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Now, Now, everybody, do try to form an orderly queue - the last thing we need is a stampede toward this sort of thing.....
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ReplyDeletejohn i would like to be a lawyer, is 40 to old to start learning and studying ?
ReplyDeletewhy was the post removed ?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous1: I've removed that, not because I object to the contents, but because I don't think an entire copyrighted article should be reproduced here. For the bnefit of other readers, the article, entitled "Barristers 'exploiting misery' as fees in family law cases rise 25% in 5 years", appeared in the Daily Mail, and can be found here.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous2: No, it's not too old, but are you sure you know what you're doing? ;-)
You just got in before me!
ReplyDeleteok, thanks john
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