|
|
15 May 2006, 13:26
|
#1
|
Heh, Leeds !
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: In The Redfern
Posts: 3,790
|
Gotta love lawyers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2180827.html
When did they stop being concerned about the people they represent and more interested in making lots of money ?
__________________
The George Harrison of BlueTuba
Yes, I know he is dead !
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 13:29
|
#2
|
Gone
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 14,656
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaio
When did they stop being concerned about the people they represent and more interested in making lots of money ?
|
342 BC
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 13:29
|
#3
|
Motherfracker
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 2,985
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Lawyers have never been all about the money, they really care about the people whom they deal with
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 14:37
|
#4
|
Jazz Man
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 1,494
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by KaneED
Lawyers have never been all about the money, they really care about the people whom they deal with
|
Bollocks.
__________________
Marv
Ex ROCK HC & PA Team Head of Support.
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 14:49
|
#5
|
The brother of Spammer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Paisley - Scotland
Posts: 2,352
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaio
|
Bloody high price for justice eh?
£7 eh.... better off with a kick up the baws than that.
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 16:46
|
#6
|
WANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAW
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Éire
Posts: 2,738
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Sickening.
Nothing will be done though.
__________________
I came, I saw, I shouldn't mix pleasure with carpentry.
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 18:21
|
#7
|
Has Soup On His Head
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 10,095
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Absoloutely Not
The Meek will not inherit the earth. The lawyers already own it.
__________________
And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to discover the Snark
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 21:04
|
#8
|
I am.
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 6,580
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
i'm glad we could have a rational and informed debate
__________________
hi
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 00:22
|
#9
|
Heh, Leeds !
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: In The Redfern
Posts: 3,790
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahwe
i'm glad we could have a rational and informed debate
|
Well join the debate then you anonymous neg repping piece of shite.
__________________
The George Harrison of BlueTuba
Yes, I know he is dead !
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 00:31
|
#10
|
Registered Awesome Person
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,676
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaio
Well join the debate then you anonymous neg repping piece of shite.
|
Accusing other people of neg repping anonymously is rarely a good idea without the relevant proof.
__________________
Finally free!
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 00:32
|
#11
|
Heh, Leeds !
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: In The Redfern
Posts: 3,790
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by furball
Accusing other people of neg repping anonymously is rarely a good idea without the relevant proof.
|
I know.
__________________
The George Harrison of BlueTuba
Yes, I know he is dead !
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 00:34
|
#12
|
Registered Awesome Person
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,676
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaio
I know.
|
So do fundamentalist Christians.
If you don't have the proof, you're not heading down the right path without a startling admission of guilt. It's not likely that Yahwe will provide you with one.
__________________
Finally free!
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 21:34
|
#13
|
Love's Sweet Exile
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Living on a Stair (Now Sword-less)
Posts: 2,371
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Think of the house prices though yahwe, don't you see?
__________________
--SYMM--
Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 22:41
|
#14
|
nondescript human
Join Date: Oct 2000
Posts: 1,079
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Everything seems to be in order here to me, I don't see what all the fuss is about. The lawyers are being paid at a market rate for the services they have rendered; if they were being overpaid, that is to say if the value of the work being done was not commensurate with the fees being paid and it were possible to have the same work done to the same standard for a lower price elsewhere, the government would have found someone else.
As far as the families are concerned, they are recieving recognition that their relatives' work was indeed responsible for their early deaths. Financial payments will never compensate for the loss of a loved one anyway; is £500 really any more acceptable than £7.13?
So they're getting everything they can realistically expect. Everyone's a winner.
Especially the lawyers!
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 22:44
|
#15
|
Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nondescript Human
is £500 really any more acceptable than £7.13?
|
Yes.
But anyway, without knowing any details I'm going to hazard a guess that the government are going to have to take a share of responsibility for setting up this (seemingly very administrative-heavy) process in the first place.
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 00:52
|
#16
|
The brother of Spammer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Paisley - Scotland
Posts: 2,352
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nondescript Human
Everything seems to be in order here to me, I don't see what all the fuss is about. The lawyers are being paid at a market rate for the services they have rendered; if they were being overpaid, that is to say if the value of the work being done was not commensurate with the fees being paid and it were possible to have the same work done to the same standard for a lower price elsewhere, the government would have found someone else.
As far as the families are concerned, they are recieving recognition that their relatives' work was indeed responsible for their early deaths. Financial payments will never compensate for the loss of a loved one anyway; is £500 really any more acceptable than £7.13?
|
So how does this work again?
£5000 (+/-) for playing chicken with a puddle but only
£7.13 for working down the mines for many a year in all various conditions.
And all seems to be in order?
away and go back to playing with your toy motors.
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 01:15
|
#17
|
nondescript human
Join Date: Oct 2000
Posts: 1,079
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Paisley
So how does this work again?
£5000 (+/-) for playing chicken with a puddle but only
£7.13 for working down the mines for many a year in all various conditions.
And all seems to be in order?
away and go back to playing with your toy motors.
|
Yeah, to be honest that wasn't a serious post at all.
|
|
|
15 May 2006, 21:45
|
#18
|
cynic
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
Posts: 8,809
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
thats been news up north on and off for ages
__________________
lazy
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 03:08
|
#19
|
Banned
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Further to the right
Posts: 19,441
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
It mentions at the end that an agreement has been reached (but not implemented?) for a minimum of £500 to each family. That said it also mentions that the lawyer's fees are paid entirely independently of each claim so except in cases where money is being "taken" away from the compensation (and I'd like to know in which cases this occurred) the blame doesn't seem to lie with the lawyers, who I would imagine received something close to the "market rate" for their services but more with whoever decided to pay the families of miners piss on a stick.
__________________
Some might ask what good is life without purpose but I'm anticipating a good lunch.
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 07:46
|
#20
|
I am.
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 6,580
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
so except in cases where money is being "taken" away from the compensation (and I'd like to know in which cases this occurred)
|
As would I. Solicitors are regulated by the Law Society and it is against those regulations to take fees from compensation (in any type of case). So any firm that has done so will be shut down and any individual found to have so done will lose their practicing certificate.
But then it's easy for journalists to make baseless claims against lawyers.
__________________
hi
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 10:10
|
#21
|
Emperor
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: in front of a computer
Posts: 490
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahwe
But then it's easy for journalists to make baseless claims against lawyers.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Times
Yet some firms have also imposed success fees or administration fees, which were taken from their clients’ damages. Others made deductions that were paid to mining unions after clients were misled into believing that the union was in some way funding their claim.
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Times
Mark Gilbert Morse, meanwhile, continues to prosper. The firm has registered more than 25,000 claims. Of these, 14,776 have been settled, for which the lawyers have been paid £41.7 million by the Government, an average of £2,820 per claim.
When it first began handling claims, the firm’s lawyers sliced up to 25 per cent from the compensation awards made to its clients.
Although it has insisted that such deductions “were in accordance with the law and guidelines at the time”, Mark Gilbert Morse says that it has now voluntarily chosen to re-pay all the money it took from claimants’ compensation.
|
It seems it is just as easy for a lawyer to make baseless claims against journalists innit?
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 12:46
|
#22
|
I am.
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 6,580
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramihyn
It seems it is just as easy for a lawyer to make baseless claims against journalists innit?
|
not really given that everything you quoted agreed with my full post.
__________________
hi
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 13:00
|
#23
|
Insomniac
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 3,583
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ramihyn
It seems it is just as easy for a lawyer to make baseless claims against journalists innit?
|
consider the source of your information.
Journalists are hardly going to say they are making baseless claims are they?
neither are lawyers - the difference is lawyers are regulated as yahwe says.
the press print anything which sells, regardless of its accuracy which is why they get sued for libel and slander a lot.
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 13:03
|
#24
|
Gone
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 14,656
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Stephen is unlikely to say that all lawyers are bandits, even if it were true. (Which it is.)
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 13:08
|
#25
|
Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil^
neither are lawyers - the difference is lawyers are regulated as yahwe says.
|
A lot of companies are regulated, this doesn't mean they are immune from doing wrong.
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 14:33
|
#26
|
Emperor
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: in front of a computer
Posts: 490
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil^
consider the source of your information.
Journalists are hardly going to say they are making baseless claims are they?
neither are lawyers - the difference is lawyers are regulated as yahwe says.
the press print anything which sells, regardless of its accuracy which is why they get sued for libel and slander a lot.
|
Newspapers are regulated too. I didnt comment just because of the initial article linked or because of the two articles which i quoted but because of 7 or 8 articles i read about the subject (admittedly from the same source).
But if you read those articles/letters, you will see that The Times is citing several names/companies and that means they are sticking their neck out quite a lot. Either they are now in very deep sh*t - or they made sure those allegations arent completely unfounded.
Check for example the bottom paragraph of this letter:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...148775,00.html
They certainly do play on the emotional side with this (for example the 7 pound compensation case might be badly chosen and the relation of lawyer fees vs. coal miner compensation isnt as bad as they make it sound), but in general they do seem to have a point here. I fully assume a bunch of lawyers had way more saying in implementing this compensation and fee scheme then coal miners.
In germany courts ruled that mass-processings of similar cases do NOT allow you to charge the same "Brago" fees you could charge for each individual case because in the past lawyers did use that to "exploit" the legal fee system. Fees dropped for individual cases from something like 1300€ down to 65€-150€ AFAIR.
Its not a "newspaper against all lawyers" anyway - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...142351,00.html
I dont see why people make such a big fuss about denying that many lawyers are in it for the money. From my experience most of IT students are in it because of the money and i heard that it is the same for law. I personally know more then one lawyer who admitted in private that he is in it for the money - why the irrational claim that once they finish their studying and get a degree they mostly want to make the world a better place and do pro bono work
|
|
|
16 May 2006, 10:53
|
#27
|
The brother of Spammer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Paisley - Scotland
Posts: 2,352
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahwe
But then it's easy for journalists to make baseless claims against lawyers.
|
should we ask James Cowan in person then?
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 01:02
|
#28
|
Heh, Leeds !
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: In The Redfern
Posts: 3,790
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Do all legal types deliberately ignore questions they don't want to answer or is it just the chosen ones ?
__________________
The George Harrison of BlueTuba
Yes, I know he is dead !
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 01:05
|
#29
|
Insomniac
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 3,583
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaio
Do all legal types deliberately ignore questions they don't want to answer or is it just the chosen ones ?
|
sounds more like politicians to me, personally
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 01:11
|
#30
|
Heh, Leeds !
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: In The Redfern
Posts: 3,790
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil^
sounds more like politicians to me, personally
|
heh
__________________
The George Harrison of BlueTuba
Yes, I know he is dead !
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 07:56
|
#31
|
I am.
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 6,580
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaio
Do all legal types deliberately ignore questions they don't want to answer or is it just the chosen ones ?
|
when we had proper mods you would have been banned for trolling and spam.
__________________
hi
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 09:47
|
#32
|
Has Soup On His Head
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 10,095
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahwe
when we had proper mods you would have been banned for trolling and spam.
|
Dont push it Steven.
__________________
And the Banker, inspired with a courage so new
It was matter for general remark,
Rushed madly ahead and was lost to their view
In his zeal to discover the Snark
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 12:09
|
#33
|
Gone
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 14,656
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahwe
when we had proper mods you would have been banned for trolling and spam.
|
So would you. You were nearly banned a while back by the hang-wringing softies currently in charge.
I say bring back Mer!
We need that kind of testosterone-fuelled approach to modding back.
|
|
|
18 May 2006, 02:50
|
#34
|
WANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAW
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Éire
Posts: 2,738
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahwe
when we had proper mods you would have been banned for trolling and spam.
|
And you've had been burnt alive for being a c**t.
Or at least banned AGAIN and this place left in a little peace for a while.
__________________
I came, I saw, I shouldn't mix pleasure with carpentry.
|
|
|
19 May 2006, 21:12
|
#35
|
Heh, Leeds !
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: In The Redfern
Posts: 3,790
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yahwe
when we had proper mods you would have been banned for trolling and spam.
|
and you would have been banned for being shit, again
__________________
The George Harrison of BlueTuba
Yes, I know he is dead !
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 07:40
|
#36
|
Registered Awesome Person
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,676
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
The barrister is there to do a job to the best of their ability, whether acting for the prosecution or the defence. Sometimes the best defence involves getting nasty (questioning sexual history, for example). The moral rights and wrongs of this are immaterial. It is the barrister's job to do it.
__________________
Finally free!
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 11:22
|
#37
|
Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by furball
The moral rights and wrongs of this are immaterial. It is the barrister's job to do it.
|
"Friends, let me tell you about another group of hate mongers who were just following orders..."
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 11:53
|
#38
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,094
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
thats unfair, the lawyers are there to ensure balance, the army and totalitarianist regimes are not.
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 11:54
|
#39
|
Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by milo
thats unfair, the lawyers are there to ensure balance, the army and totalitarianist regimes are not.
|
I was just quoting Clerks dear, I don't really care.
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 11:55
|
#40
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,094
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 12:37
|
#41
|
Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by milo
|
Well, if you want me to care then I'd say that the fact there is "balance" doesn't eliminate the notion of moral responsibility. Do we say that soldiers are allowed to do what they want on the basis they are "balanced" by enemy troops in some sense?
Either way the fact it's their job hardly makes it OK (if it's wrong in the first place, which is unclear).
Last edited by Dante Hicks; 17 May 2006 at 12:43.
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 13:03
|
#42
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,094
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
id question the notion of moral responsibity when defending someone who hasn't been found guilty, im reluctant to start discussing moral responsibility since its all subjective, the lawyers are there to ensure that the person is at least defended. Soilders aren't allowed to do whatever they want, and neither are lawyers!
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 13:12
|
#43
|
Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Quote:
Originally Posted by milo
id question the notion of moral responsibity when defending someone who hasn't been found guilty
|
Why? Clearly, there are somethings which are acceptable and some which are not in the pursuit of their duty (i.e. defending their clients). As you say, they are not allowed to do what they want, and the rules which govern what they are allowed to do must be based ultimately on some notion of morality (i.e. what is justified and what is not).
The point originally raised is that their behaviour in the case mentioned might not be strictly against the rules but might still be wrong in some sense. furball's responses of ignoring morality "because it's their job" which was what I was responding to.
edit : It could be worse, our lawyers could do stuff like this : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4989034.stm
Last edited by Dante Hicks; 17 May 2006 at 13:20.
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 13:36
|
#44
|
Banned
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Further to the right
Posts: 19,441
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
There's a problem with having lawyers with a sense of morality which they allow to impact on their jobs as lawyers though. If you have a case where you have two lawyers and they're told to find "the truth" in a court case you're leaving it open to manipulation and personal opinion. However if they're each just arguing for, or against, to the best of their ability you know precisely what you are getting. Long term I think having certain avenues of questioning blocked off would lead to more incorrect decisions being reached than otherwise.
__________________
Some might ask what good is life without purpose but I'm anticipating a good lunch.
|
|
|
17 May 2006, 14:27
|
#45
|
Bored
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Nottm ->Shef ->Croydon ->Manc ->Durham ->Sheffield
Posts: 6,506
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4989034.stm
Quote:
A gunman has opened fire inside Turkey's highest court in Ankara injuring five judges, two seriously.
...
The attacker, believed to be a lawyer, was detained by police and is being questioned but his motive is not clear.
|
Crazy lawyers.
|
|
|
19 May 2006, 15:00
|
#46
|
Bored
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Nottm ->Shef ->Croydon ->Manc ->Durham ->Sheffield
Posts: 6,506
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
but the queen hates those darkies as much as Skiddy...
probably.
|
|
|
19 May 2006, 16:03
|
#47
|
BlueTuba
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 6,339
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
I'm going to make it easy for this thread.
Solicitors do work, and time how long they are working plus expenses. They put in a lot of years of training to be able to do their work, work hard when they are actually qualified (as quite a few have billing targets, as in how many hours they have to put in) and thus should be paid accordingly, according the stature of their firm and their experience in the firm, like any other business.
They then send a 'bill' in order to get 'paid'
This 'bill' will generally be paid by the loser, however sometimes the loser won't have to pay all the costs involved, because it would be unfair due to various factors, including the behaviour of the lawyers/parties at trial and beforehand and whether the costs made should be picked up by that party. Therefore the winner sometimes (not always though) has to pay costs and this might be out of their damages. Some people have sued people successfully for a loss and felt it was worth it simply because they wanted their day in court (although that isn't really relevant here, it's just illustrative).
Solicitors cannot charge a percentage of damages as part of a 'success fee'. This is called a contingency fee and is not permitted by the solicitors code of conduct for what is called 'contentious litigation' (in your speak, this is basically 'going to court'). What they can do is charge a "conditional fee agreement" whereby on success the fee is uplifted by a % which usually fluctuates between 10-25%, although I have no precise data for this to hand. There are very strict rules on entry into these agreements to provide safeguards for the client.
As far as I'm concerned, solicitors do work, ask to get paid and then do get paid for their work like any profession and that payment/charging regime is regulated. Solicitors do get paid well but considering the difficulty in becoming one and the work required to take a case to court, why shouldn't they be well paid?
My conclusion is that the people who were making claims probably used the wrong size of firm (in that they were too expensive) and would have been better off getting a specialist firm, or using a smaller firm of solicitors who would have charged a more reasonable price and thus increased compensation for everyone. Although this is just a students view of the situation.
__________________
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
|
|
|
19 May 2006, 16:13
|
#48
|
________
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Somwhere I belong
Posts: 4,474
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
Sup.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by blink 182
Breathing deeply, walking backwards,
finding strength to call and ask her
Roller coaster favorite ride,
let me kiss you one last time.
|
|
|
|
19 May 2006, 20:10
|
#49
|
BlueTuba
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 6,339
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
No, it means that they have to put the best argument forward for their client, infact they have a duty to do so.
There is a duty not to mislead the court so no lawyer is allowed to 'lie' to get his client 'off'.
__________________
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
|
|
|
24 May 2006, 01:06
|
#50
|
USS Oklahoma
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 2,500
|
Re: Gotta love lawyers
What is the matter with British lawyers? Each of these ignorant bastards or their families were allowed to make off with 7.13? The lawyers do all of the work. All plaintiffs do is sit there and die or be injured.
__________________
Ignorance is curable, stupidity is not.
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Hybrid Mode
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 14:44.
| |