To leave defence lawyers in limbo and carrying 100% of the risk is unfair and unreasonable. 

Julian Young 

Be careful what you wish for. According to the LA contract, payment for police station will only become payable on attendance. If however, you do consultation by phone, then you cannot claim the fee. If you do this will go down as a fraudulent claim and will have to pay it back. Under such circumstances, only telephone advice fee can be claim.

 

Before doing anything the LA must become involve and alter the wording of the contract. So, be very careful about giving telephone advice and putting in a claim for police station attendance 

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On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 12:27, Jacqueline Nuth

<jacquelinenuth@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

Dear Mark 

Thank you for the clarification.  

This is a difficult time for all but I would ask everyone to have consideration for the freelancers amongst us who do not have the luxury of a salary to fall back on.  I fully endorse and support the decisions being made and appreciate they are being made to protect us all. 

The reality for freelancers, as you know, is that for a majority of us is that if we do not work we do not eat.  Therefore I appeal to all partners to ensure that outstanding payments are paid to the relevant Freelancers particularly at this time.

You know who you are. 

Jacqueline Nuth 

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On 26 Mar 2020, at 10:56, Joe Mensah-Dankwah <Joemensah@foresterssolicitors.co.uk> wrote:



In a tel chat with my contract manager yesterday,  I set out my strategy for dealing with any police station work that comes, as consisting of dealing entirely on the phone.  She was completely sympathetic. Her only regret was that if the police refused to co-operate and I handed the case back to DSCC, there might be someone else who would accept the work.

 

Let us all refuse to attend in person and only deal with cases over the phone. See if the world explodes. 

 

Joe Mensah-Dankwah

Foresters Solicitors Limited. 

 

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Dear members,

 

We are aware that all of you are facing tough decisions at this time.  We are in discussions with other representative bodies to issue advice to organisations on how to protect staff and their agents, to whom they also owe a responsibility.  We are working as fast as we can in a fast-changing environment.

 

Our message to employees and freelancers is clear however.  You do not need to put yourself in danger by attending police stations and courts in person; it is not safe.  No one should require you to.

 

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