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[Closed] Court refusing to try those who cannot get legal aid.

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I think you've missed the point completely

I did not it is still very expensive to employ a legal representative
their average fees are i imagine in the £100 + per hour and this is more than the average person earns per day never mind per hour.
There will be plenty of regular posters on here charging out at > £140/hr

there will not there will be very few but there will be some
they will be equally atypical.
Good criminal lawyers will be able to move into civil law and earn more
Dont worry I will legislate for that as well 😉

No system or solution will be perfect but one obvious way to reduce costs is to make legal fees much more typical of the norm.


 
Posted : 01/05/2014 8:11 pm
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junkyard we are talking about criminal legal aid the fees are based around hourly charge out rates are usually between 43 and 69 quid an hour though there have been effective cuts of first 10% then 8.5% since the fixed fees were calculated on those rates .

These rates are not the lawyers earnings they are the charging out rate to cover the overheads and wages and profit . By comparison i googled labour rates for garages they came out at 40 - 85 quid an hour . I get called out at 2 am for three hours to a police station the firm gets £142 try getting a plumber out for that .


 
Posted : 01/05/2014 10:19 pm
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there will not there will be very few but there will be some
they will be equally atypical.
On Audi owning, ITtrackworld? 😆

Good criminal lawyers will be able to move into civil law and earn more

You really don't want represented in a Criminal court by an inexperienced civil lawyer.

No system or solution will be perfect but one obvious way to reduce costs is to make legal fees much more typical of the norm.
I think you are just misguided as to what the norm is for professional services.


 
Posted : 01/05/2014 10:43 pm
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Appeal being heard yesterday and today, latest;

[i]Another @MoJGovUK nugget: "The Lord Chancellor regards this as an emergency measure..." (to cover up a disaster foreseeable one year ago).[/i]

be interesting if the courts agree and decide to throw all these cases out.


 
Posted : 14/05/2014 1:48 pm
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I think you are just misguided as to what the norm is for professional services.

I am not it is too much 😉


 
Posted : 14/05/2014 2:09 pm
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It's like this thread had never been away 🙂


 
Posted : 14/05/2014 2:12 pm
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