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OT - Don't Use Lawyers in America - Use a Barrister
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| I know this is maybe OT, but if you want to start legal action because of a
health problem and you live in the U.S.A. it is now less expensive to hire a
barrister, and I do feel I should pass this information on.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story...1682172,00.html
This is the relevant part of the article:
The barristers have reacted by abolishing many of the traditional rules which
insisted that a client couldn't hire them directly, but had to go through
solicitors, which, of course, led to much duplication of work and higher legal
costs. Now, for many kinds of cases, clients can go straight to barristers, so,
it is claimed, making the whole process cheaper. The other day the bar was
overjoyed to come upon a case in the court of appeal in which one litigant, a
bank, which had gone to solicitors first, had accumulated a bill of £68,000,
whereas their opponents, who had gone directly to a barrister, had legal costs
of just £6,400.
"Ten times cheaper," trumpeted the bar.
So my fellow hepatitis sufferers, I urge you all to take this advice, and use a
barrister at all times.
Alan
http://unitedeuropeanworkersunion.blogspot.com/
http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/
http://lordcerneabbastoo.blogspot.com/
http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/
http://veloceraptor.blogspot.com/
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
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| epiphany 2006-01-12, 11:02 am |
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http://www.hometips.com/content/stairs_intro.html
Now what the heck does that have to do with lawyers Alan?
Don't forget me! The Piph'
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:21 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk (Alan) wrote:
>I know this is maybe OT, but if you want to start legal action because of a
>health problem and you live in the U.S.A. it is now less expensive to hire a
>barrister, and I do feel I should pass this information on.
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story...1682172,00.html
>
>This is the relevant part of the article:
>
>The barristers have reacted by abolishing many of the traditional rules which
>insisted that a client couldn't hire them directly, but had to go through
>solicitors, which, of course, led to much duplication of work and higher legal
>costs. Now, for many kinds of cases, clients can go straight to barristers, so,
>it is claimed, making the whole process cheaper. The other day the bar was
>overjoyed to come upon a case in the court of appeal in which one litigant, a
>bank, which had gone to solicitors first, had accumulated a bill of £68,000,
>whereas their opponents, who had gone directly to a barrister, had legal costs
>of just £6,400.
>
>"Ten times cheaper," trumpeted the bar.
>
>So my fellow hepatitis sufferers, I urge you all to take this advice, and use a
>barrister at all times.
>
>Alan
>
>http://unitedeuropeanworkersunion.blogspot.com/
>
>http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/
>
>http://lordcerneabbastoo.blogspot.com/
>
>http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/
>
>http://veloceraptor.blogspot.com/
>
>http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
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