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 30, 2012 | DIY Law, Private client criminal defence, Women & the Law
Usually Police hear this one from people who’ve just been charged. I usually hear it from people in the early stages of a legal dispute regarding accusations their employer’s just made about them – or people who are being pursued by someone who says...
by Kris | Jan 26, 2012 | DIY Law
As I’ve only made the one Freedom of Information Act request, I certainly don’t hold myself out to be any sort of expert. I didn’t “win” – and it was always going to be a mountain to climb getting the Information Commissioner...
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”...
