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Access to the Bar:
instructing Barristers directly is cheaper The
case of GE Capital Bank v Rushton & Jennings
is believed to be the first case to reach the Court
of Appeal in which a Barrister has acted under the public
access scheme.
Anthony Speaight QC, chairman of the Bar Council's Access
to the Bar Committee, said that the costs involved in
the case showed the clear public interest benefits of
public access to the Bar in cases where Solicitors were
not required.
"GE, whose Barrister was instructed by
a Solicitor, presented a claim for £68,082 costs
of the appeal," Mr Speaight said. "By contrast,
the costs summary of the defendants, who instructed
their Barrister directly, was in the sum of £6,400.
"Making every allowance for the fact that the client
who acts directly will himself have to undertake some
administrative work which a Solicitor would do for him,
this case demonstrates the genuine and considerable
savings that can be achieved through instructing a Barrister
without a Solicitor. " Mr Speaight pointed out
that a similar point was illustrated in the Andre Agassi
case, in which the tennis star used his tax consultant
rather than a Solicitor to instruct his Barrister. In
that case, the senior costs judge sitting as an assessor
said that in his experience a Solicitor could well have
charged three times more than the tax consultant.
(Article courtesy of Council magazine,
February 2006) |
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