Malcolm Cree, Chief Executive of the Bar Council, said: «Traditionally, a member of the public would go to
a solicitor with their legal problem and the solicitor would turn to a barrister when needed for their expertise and advocacy skills.
Not exact matches
The fear of high charge out rates or the feeling of inferiority when coming face to face
with a
solicitor are the most common reasons why people do not seek the professional
legal help they need to solve their
legal problems.
Given that your only means of communicating
with your lawyer would have been by writing and receiving letters, telephoning them from a landline, or actually making an appointment to go into the office, then choosing a local
solicitor would have been a wise choice in most cases (although, even in those times, it was still crucial to make sure they had the necessary expertise to deal
with your
legal problem!).
Mencap aims to improve access to social care and is therefore attempting to i) gather powerful data in order to influence local and national decision makers; ii) provide early advice
with the help of
solicitors and barristers working pro bono; and iii) improve
legal education by training care managers to spot
legal problems and developing a chat bot — an «automated
legal brain» which is interactive and can provide information and rights and redress.
Removal of the rules which prevent
solicitors establishing their own firms immediately after they qualify could put vulnerable clients
with complex
legal problems in the hands of inexperienced, unsupervised lawyers.»
``... at that time their libraries comprised law reports and individual text books, but no
legal encyclopedias... The
solicitor faced
with a
legal problem of any magnitude at all was by circumstances compelled to send the papers to counsel who, in turn, had no alternative but to study the multitude of available text books and browse among the reports and statutes
A collection of essays about improving access to justice... Closing the Justice Gap: some new thinking about an old
problem... produced by the
legal research company Jures this month, and published by the Solicitors Journal in association with the Young Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birt
legal research company Jures this month, and published by the
Solicitors Journal in association
with the Young
Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birt
Legal Aid Lawyers was launched at our fifth birthday.
Therefore we see for example, LSUC embracing apps,
with no assessment as to: (1) their relation to, and impact upon solving the
problem; (2) their ability to bring about the economies - of - scale so badly needed in the production of
legal services; (3) their ability to serve and sustain the continued existence of the general practitioner; (4) the prevalence (frequency and availability) of the
solicitor - client relationship among all of the many and fast - moving developments in the provision of
legal services; and, (5) the issues set out above.