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Anon 0853 - The QC was obviously instructed to defend the firm against the making of a wasted costs order. A lucrative case? Certainly not - by pleading guilty in the Magistrates Court the total billing for both courts for the Solicitors firm would be under £600. The problem here is that the solicitors firm risks operating at a loss in carrying out day-to-day criminal legal aid work. Any such work has to be done quickly - perfect communication is not always available so it's very easy to miss something crucial such as a client not knowing his national insurance number. But then why should a client not be able to access legal aid funding when he cannot recall his NI No? Or for that matter because he is self-employed or employed and unable to provide proof of his financial position from his prison cell? Or because he's married and cannot get his wife to sign the forms and give her NINo? The system is well and truly broken from everyone's point of view.

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