Plus ca change...... I remember a similar piece of nonsense in a speech from Sam Stein QC to the LCCSA a few years ago. It seems obligatory for the Bar to select someone of like this every few years or so, we will just have to put up with it until they choose someone more vision, let alone tact.

Mind you, there are some firms that do act as no more than a letter-box to Counsel, friends at the Bar complain of zilch instructions on complex cases where the trial advocate is expected to pull rabbits out of a hat and the solicitor's firm puts in the same gruelling hours as the average estate agent, so it cuts both ways. What I hate is the generalised slur on our profession maligning those who do in fact put in the work. His use of the word 'often' is the telling point......

Solicitors 'often' don't instruct those who disparage them, Mr Spence.......


On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 at 02:42, attiq@libertylawsolicitors.co.uk <attiq@libertylawsolicitors.co.uk> wrote:
Very unhappy with Simon Spence referring to solicitors as postmen and proposing cutting the litigator fee.  

We should take action, maybe ask his chambers if all of their barristers are of the same opinion and if so stop instructions?

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Kind Regards

Attiq Malik
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Liberty Law Solicitors
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