A salutary warning, more like, for everybody in your position to act with integrity and with your clients interest at heart.
]]>Lawyers who routinely lose cases, yes.
]]>A lot of assumptions, Paul. I suspect you wouldn’t be so blasé had you been the client.
]]>Unless she billed the extra 8 weeks she was preserving the client’s false sense they had a case. Some would say that was all lawyers do…
]]>Laura, you have really won. It may not sound like that right now but you are lucky to get out of a profession that is regulated by nitwits who themselves have caused more financial loss due to their own incompetence than the solicitors profession ever did when they regulated themselves.
]]>You have a code of professional conduct that you must work by and adhere to. This is planned calculated and deliberately. At a cost of £260.00 + VAT per hour. The least you can do is act in the best interest of the client. I have seen the damage that solicitors cause to clients when they ( solicitors) mess up. It destroys lives and families, not to mention the mental anguish and anxiety caused by such actions. Greedy solicitor firms and solicitors afraid to stand up and say work load is too excessive. So yes I agree the decision was correct.
]]>Too much pressure put on relatively new solicitors by the admin to produce costs.
I bet she feels a lot better being out of the rat race.
Feel pity for her. Only 6 years in and feeling pressure at a top firm.
]]>Totally agree on that. People worry about Trump’s America-I worry about the SDT/SRA’S England and Wales…
]]>The consequence might well have been the client losing a lot of the client’s money pursuing a lost cause.
And who would gain from that? The solicitor?
]]>Maybe the outcome would have been different had Laura been motivated to continue in the profession, but strike off appears on the face of it wholly disproportionate. The harm caused by an 8-week delay in receiving the report was surely relatively modest. It was presumably an expert opinion that meant the client’s case would likely not succeed in any event.
Some of these SDT decisions scare me.
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