by Kris | Mar 24, 2012 | Direct Access Barristers, DIY Law
The Sheriffs Are Coming has to be my favourite programme at the moment. While every episode is the same – with Employment Tribunal and County Court money judgments finally catching up with rogue landlords and former employers – there is something quite...
by Kris | Mar 6, 2012 | Direct Access Barristers, DIY Law
Several litigants in person have come to me recently about enforcing their county court and tribunal money judgments. They won their cases a few years ago, but the other side haven’t paid. Is getting judgment debtors to pay what they owe normally a problem? The...
by Kris | Mar 2, 2012 | Advocacy, Direct Access Barristers, DIY Law, Private client criminal defence
I’ll start with how not to brief a barrister. My friend J decided to start a claim against his neighbour. He was a litigant in person – but told me that he had a barrister “on hand” who was guiding him. J told me the barrister represented him...
by Kris | Jan 20, 2012 | Direct Access Barristers, DIY Law, Get qualified, Miscellany, Non-legal help
Friends, this is a funny old jurisdiction. Anybody can call themselves a “lawyer”. You don’t have to have one day’s worth of legal training to be a “lawyer”, “will-writer” or “professional McKenzie Friend”...
by Kris | Jan 1, 2012 | Direct Access Barristers, DIY Law, Landlord & Tenant
The biggest favour you can do yourself is to get all the letters from your desk drawer and to get them organised and in a folder or ring binder. The next best thing you can do is to put all the letters in reverse chronological order. That means the oldest letter is at...
by Kris | Dec 31, 2011 | Direct Access Barristers, DIY Law, Landlord & Tenant
Everyone wants to phone it in these days. Unless you want to get into a he said/she said drama that will make a judge start weeping with boredom, consider adopting the mantra, If it’s not written down, it never happened. Yes, I know there are verbal contracts...
