What is the difference between a Barrister and a Solicitor?

Answer 1

A barrister is a member of a referral profession, specialising in legal advice and advocacy. If a solicitor needs assistance on a difficult legal point, he will go to a barrister. In many courts (e.g. the High Court), only barristers have rights of audience, and so solicitors must go to barristers if they have a case requiring an appearance before those courts (unless the solicitor has gained a separate qualification known as 'Solicitor-Advocate', which is quite rare).

Members of the public cannot go directly to barristers.They must go to solicitors. The hourly rate of barristers is generally far less than that of solicitors. This is because solicitors operate in a firm, and so the amount a solicitor charges per hour will not go to that solicitor alone but has to go towards paying the partners of the firm and the salaries of all those employed by the firm. Barristers, on the other hand, are self-employed, working in barristers' chambers, and so the amount they get paid per hour goes only to them (minus their overheads, such as paying rent for a room in chambers). Because of this, they can afford to charge a much lower hourly rate.

Answer 2

Difference Between Barristers And Solicitors

Answer 3

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What is the difference between a Barrister and a Solicitor?

Answer 4

Solicitors work with the clients directly but a barrister presents the case in court (The Bar). At least in the UK. This isn't the case in the US where the same lawyers can do either task. Rumpole of the Bailey was a Barrister.

Answer 5

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The legal profession in Britain is divided into two branches: barristers (called ‘advocates’ in Scotland) and solicitors.
Solicitors undertake legal business for individual and corporate clients, while barristers advise on legal problems submitted through solicitors and present cases in higher courts. Certain functions are common to both – for example, the presentation of cases in lower courts.

Barristers must pass professional examinations before being called to the Bar (Barristers are known collectively as the Bar), and they must then serve an apprenticeship with a qualified barrister for one year.

Solicitors must also pass professional examinations and serve a two-year period of apprenticeship, called ‘articles’, in a solicitor’s office. Once qualified in this way, a newly admitted solicitor is supervised for three years.

Answer 6

about £200 per hour. The barristers tells the solicitors what to do and then still get more money for doing the fancy talking in court.

Answer 7

A barrister is a type of solicitor who are allowed to represent parties in crown court.

Answer 8

A solicitor prepares cases for a barrister. Like a paralegal does for an attorney. They can particpate in lower court cases.

Answer 9

they get paid more or just a posh name

Answer 10

£££££££££££££ per hour