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'Meanwhile the Bar Council has warned barristers against agreeing to do work for law firms in the magistrates' courts for no fee in return for instructions for Crown court work. The bar said that this could be a breach of the ban on referral fees'.

No lawyer is paid anything for a first hearing in the Mags on an indictable only case. They do that work for nowt in the expectation of the grad fee scheme fee later

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