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Doubtless Counsel will still expect any correspondence with or documents from their clients to be same-day couriered direct to their home address and for such documents to be organised into paginated bundles.

For too long, solicitors have protected the bar from the vile public but now I cannot wait to see the precincts of the Temple full of criminals looking for their barrister's chambers so that they can go and abuse him or her and ask them for cigarrettes and money for the bus fare home. Counsel is welcome to it!!

Great thought Lady Deech QC - allowing barristers to conduct litigation will "take the administrative burden off members of the public". And it will bring down costs. I take it from that statement that barristers will not be charging to conduct all this litigation, other than their usual charges for opinions, conferences, briefs and advocacy etc.

The Bar Mutual has no clue what is about to hit it. Barristers have no clue how to protect themselves from the blame culture of the public if things don't go their way. Soon it will go through the same shortfall as SIF but I doubt that young barristers with low earnings will be in a position to pay their contribution to bail out the fund. Not with all the new administration costs they will incur plus increased staffing to answer the phone and do the photocopying that the solicitors will not already have done for them.

Yes, I can't wait - I am out of it!!

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