{"id":1154,"date":"2009-09-25T06:41:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T05:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2009-09-25T06:41:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T05:41:02","slug":"lawyers-earn-more-from-busking-than-legal-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers earn more from busking than legal aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1156\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Basil-Preuveneers-and-Denis-Cameron-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Basil Preuveneers and Denis Cameron\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>Basil Preuveneers and Denis Cameron<\/div>\r\n<\/div>It is reported in The Times that two solicitors, Basil Preuveneers and Denis Cameron, took to the streets this week to highlight the fact that legal aid earnings have become so eroded that lawyers&#8217; rates are now \u00a370 an hour &#8211; or less, when fixed rates are paid regardless of how much work is done.<\/p>\n<p>In the 40 minutes they busked they raised nearly \u00a370 &#8211; proving that they could do better as street musicians then defending people&#8217;s rights.  They have donated the money to the Law Society Charity, which distributes funds to other charities and initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>Full report <a href=\"http:\/\/timesonline.typepad.com\/law\/2009\/09\/lawyers-earn-more-from-busking-than-legal-aid-.html#more\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basil Preuveneers and Denis Cameron It is reported in The Times that two solicitors, Basil Preuveneers and Denis Cameron, took to the streets this week to highlight the fact that legal aid earnings have become so eroded that lawyers&#8217; rates are now \u00a370 an hour &#8211; or less, when fixed rates are paid regardless of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}