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Sets introduce contracts to ensure firms pay up

It is about time barristers started standing up for themselves. everybody knows that litigators can get their fees in installments to pay for disbursements and this should include counsel fees. Why then do they refuse to pay up? Perceptions are that we are rich barristers who can afford to wait a little while longer. In reality using a junior is cheaper then instructing an associate and many clients would prefer to do that. Those juniors can then wait six months to get paid. Is that fair on a younger barrister trying to make his/her way up the ladder? Chambers need to start going public on those who refuse to pay.

29-Oct-2009

1:09 pm