Recently, out of my Gazette dropped a flyer offering me an instant referral fee and a share of the costs for referring clinical negligence clients to the firm advertising.


As it happens, I know of a firm that does its clinical negligence work competently and well and have recently referred a client to it on that basis.



How are young solicitors to know that their duty on referring a matter is to make sure that the referral is to a good and competent firm, if it is acceptable under the rules of the Law Society to take money in exchange for the referral?



All that solicitors have is their integrity. Every corporate bulling hates our profession for its integrity. Selling it out for a short-term gain is not prudent, and is corrosive of society.



Andrew Cohen, W Davies & Son, Woking, Surrey