We specialise in family and crime. We keep doing the sums but nothing adds up. It works out like this: on current rates, one member of our family team doing legally aided work can earn for the firm in two and a half days an amount it takes one of our criminal team a week to earn.


The comparison with private work is even more shocking, One member of our family team doing private work can earn for the firm in one day the same amount it takes one of our criminal team a week to earn. Add the fact that the family team members do not have to work at weekends or in the small hours of the morning and the conclusion is obvious: to sign up to another criminal do-as-you-are-told contract in the terms proposed would be just plain silly.



JP Penney, Gordon & Penney, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset