This week I combine a news post with the Friday song - the latter being vageuly themed on the former.
Before the musical entertainment however - compare and contrast
We’ve already received many completed contracts from both solicitors and advocates and we’re expecting all contracts to be accepted and returned within the deadline. (emphasis added)
We are aware that a very high proportion of advocates have still to sign VHCC advocates’ contracts, and although those contracts do not have to be returned until 21 January, the present indications are that a substantial number of advocates are currently intending not to do so.
This has created sufficient panic to occasion the following "legal advice" from the LSC to the Bar Council:
The Bar Council is, we believe, aware that it is unlawful under Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 and a criminal offence under section 188 of the Enterprise Act 2002 for parties, including members of the Bar, to collude in the terms on which they offer their services. All that is required for a breach of the Competition Act is a “concurrence of wills” or, as recent case law has established, that information supplied by any party is supplied to another with the intention of, or knowledge that, it will facilitate the making of an anti-competitive agreement. Under the Enterprise Act secrecy concerning the steps taken to enter into an arrangement to limit the supply of services is presumed by practitioners to establish the necessary dishonesty. (You can read the whole letter at the "today" link above or via the Bar Council link below).
The LSC goes on to implore the BC to "provide this advice itself" to its members. Their suitably measured response is here.
Is this the point at which we cease "being all in this together" as the LSC resorts to 11th hour legal threats to its erstwhile "partners" to try and save a flagship initiative? Will they succeed?
I have made my willingness to run the "No. 6 are Innocent" campaign, know to Tim Collins and may well be making requests for readers to bake cakes containing files later next week.
The song - obvious wasn't it:
I bet the Counsel they use for legal advice does not work at "Legal Aid" rates
Thank god for the bar
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