Sentences with phrase «employed as a barrister»

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Generally speaking, Daniel Dennett's method in all his books is too often reminiscent of the forensic technique employed by the Snark, in the Barrister's dream, to defend a pig charged with abandoning its sty: The Snark admits the desertion but then immediately claims this as proof of the pig's alibi (for the creature was obviously absent from the scene of the crime at the time of its commission).

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Barristers are also sometimes employed «in - house» by large organisations such as banks, firms of solicitors and even the Government, as part of the Government Legal Service.

Barristers are traditionally thought of as self - employed, and independent of thought and deed.

Chairman of the Bar Andrew Langdon QC said: «The winners and the shortlisted nominees, as well as the 200 employed barristers at the Awards are a demonstration of the exceptional quality we have in the employed Bar.

As such, if an organisation has been engaged by a client other than to provide legal advice and assistance (e.g. to provide project management advice, contractual advice and / or adjudication advice, all of which are different to the provision of actual legal advice), then it is unlikely that privilege will apply to that advice regardless of whether the organisation employs solicitors and / or barristers.

All barristers practising from these chambers are self - employed individuals who provide their professional services as sole practitioners in their own name.

Some barristers are employed «in - house» at law firms and large commercial organisations (such as the Government Legal Service), which takes away the uncertainty associated with being self - employed and brings with it regular income and benefits.

Originally employed as a non practising barrister, he qualified as a solicitor in July 2001, becoming a partner in June 2012.

«With no independent barristers willing to prepare such cases after a 30 % fee cut, the Ministry is now scrambling to try and solve the problem by employing barristers to the Public Defender Service, leading to the additional costs of employment such as holiday pay, pension contributions and national insurance etc..

Addressing the European Bar Presidents» conference last week, he said: «We need to start a public debate as to whether we wish to see a monolithic state prosecutor, and how in future young self - employed barristers will learn their trade if they do not receive instructions to prosecute.»

James Williams, barrister at Henderson Chambers, who represents King, said the decision would be «of great significance to many workers wrongly categorised by their employers as self - employed.

Each barrister is self - employed and works as an individual.