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Marshall,

I fear that you overstate the depth of understanding of Dr Martin.

The logical flaw at the heart of the pathetic mewling re transparency is that we are as a profession generally unable to say how much a matter is likely to cost as an indication as each and every case is likely to be different.

Take company formation, is this a single person company with a sole owner and director or is it a company with 10 directors, five of whom own equity with a further 15 share owners of whom 10 are backed by external funders which requires share holder agreements, debentures, preferrential options and so on an so on.

What about a divorce, no assets vs assets, kids vs no kids, consented vs contested etc etc

A claim for personal injury, liability dispute or not, jurisdictional issues, value and complexity.

What Dr Martin needs to understand is that we cannot say what the service is going to cost as we do not know what we are being asked to do.

In terms of 'price transparency' I could give a rate from £115 per hour to £285 per hour and the number of hours from 1 to 600, I could say that the cost of issue will be between £35 and £10,000 I could say disbursements will be between £300 and £85,000,
I could say the risk of adverse costs is between 1 and 100%, I could say that ATE may be available and be between £250 and £40,000, I could say all of that and the potential client would ask, yes you blithering fool but how much is MY case going to cost.

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