Dear Members

Those on Highbury court and inner London court schemes will have received this .

The deadline is today .

Please do respond .

It is clear they are trying to reduce the number of “redundant “ duty solicitors at court based on the data showing hours spent at court vs numbers attended .

The problem with their proposal to merge the schemes would further remove the spirit of the schemes which were set up to ensure that defendants were matched with local firms .

Since the closures of the various courts , the HCYC rota includes firms from as far out as Enfield . The inner London scheme includes firms from West and South West London .  

Merging the schemes would lead to a young person living in Enfield being represented by a firm in Wandsworth and vice versa .

They have made the savings from court closures , which has led to this consolidation  . Appropriate allocation of duty solicitor to client is a small cost in that context and that is why they need a duty solicitor for each scheme to be present each day .

Regards

Jon

Jonathan Black ( Partner)                                                 

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