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Lunacy.

Litigation is too expensive and costs need to be moderated.

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You can't only to a bit of work- we need you fully involved or not at all.

This will only serve to isolate LIPS even further from obtaining advice, and, by extension amounts to a challenge of their access to justice.

It won't be long until we need to advise clients to obtain independent legal advice on the contents of our client care letters. Ridiculous.

We're entirely over regulated. The professional rules are crippling and are creating costs and risks that otherwise wouldn't exist. This being one. If the firm didn't agree to serve the bundle that's the end of the matter. If they did and didn't do so then it's their fault. Its negligent and a breach of contract. But please lets stop implying duties where they make no commercial sense- the fact is that many don't want to pay for the time or work that a bundled approach to litigation would involve. And fair enough! Anyone instructing on an unbundled basis needs to accept that that necessarily means that not all aspects will be considered or advised upon. Fair enough to them too!

This will now add another page onto the 12 page client care letter that no one reads anyway. Brilliant.

In my view this issue is being artificially created by the judiciary rather than actual client demand- most think you're creating a mountain out of a mole hill if you bring this type of issue up. They're probably thinking we're trying to rack up fees in the hope they don't continue as LIPs vs instructing us (irony noted) or are trying to fob them off.

I can't go to get my car brake pads changed and then blame my mechanic for failing to sort out my dodgy brake light at the same time. Enough of this nonsense please.