solicitor and a barrister(I hope I spelled the two names correctly)
2007-07-04 03:38:54 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I'm not interested in best answer, but I'm curious about this, also. I'm a U.S. attorney and I thought solictors wrote legal documents and barristers actually go to court and try cases. Hopefully, our U.K. friends can expound on that. We do not have that distinction in the U.S. and I don't know if the education is the same or if one gets paid more than the other. I starred your question so I could watch it.
2007-07-04 03:51:37 · answer #1 · answered by David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A barrister specialises in advocacy in the courtroom as well as giving expert written legal opinions. They tend to be more specialised within an area of law as well. They do not deal directly with clients but instead accept instructions from a solicitor on behalf of a client. The solicitor will do the preparations for a court case as well as legal work that does involve trials or complex law such as preparing wills. Solicitors will typically work in a law firm, but most barristers are self-employed, though they do collect together in chambers to share the cost of office administation, rent etc. It used to be the case that solicitors only had the right to appear before the lower courts while barristers could appear in all courts. This has changed and solicitors can now appear in all courts. However, they don't get the pleasure of wearing wigs and for the more critical and important cases the specialist advocacy skills of the barrister means they are often still chosen over solicitor-advocates.
In addition to this some solicitors have pointed out the main difference is the size of a barister's ego. Barristers' counter that it's really how much smarter and more dashing they are. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/columnists/alex_wade/article705623.ece
2007-07-05 04:06:54 · answer #2 · answered by Tim W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A solicitor is a lawyer who deals with many aspects of law for the general public and one service is to instruct a barrister to present a case in court on behalf of his client.
Solicitors do not normally speak in court for either the prosecution or defence but liase between the barrister, police and defendant.
2007-07-04 05:47:00 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a solicitor, collects bad loans, a barrister practices law.
2007-07-04 15:36:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a question on "Jeopardy" the other night about this! Here's some interesting info. from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrister
2007-07-04 04:58:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anne M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋