{"id":1540,"date":"2010-05-12T03:27:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T02:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2010-05-12T03:27:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T02:27:05","slug":"barristers-to-change-relationship-with-solicitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Barristers to change relationship with solicitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1119\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/lsn142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/lsn142-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t<div>Barristers to change relationship with solicitors<\/div>\r\n<\/div>Barristers are seeking to change the rules that prevent them suing solicitors for unpaid fees.<\/p>\n<p>Proposed contractual terms would set out a basic legal position of both parties, dealing with matters including the proper and prompt execution of work.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals will have to be approved by the Legal Services Board.   Barristers and solicitors will continue to be free to agree their own terms, the new contractual provisions being a default position..<\/p>\n<p>At present barristers the only actions that barristers can take against defaulting solicitors are to make a complaint to the Solicitors Regulation Authority or put the solicitor on a &#8216;black list&#8217; until the payment is made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barristers to change relationship with solicitors Barristers are seeking to change the rules that prevent them suing solicitors for unpaid fees. Proposed contractual terms would set out a basic legal position of both parties, dealing with matters including the proper and prompt execution of work. The proposals will have to be approved by the Legal [&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-1540","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\/1540","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=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}