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JusticeForSale

Today I was involved in a tiny case involving a small road traffic accident.  Which made it all the more surprising that I found myself against a barrister who was fifteen years call and according to the costs schedule was being paid £2,000 for the day compared to my £350. The thing is, it’s not that I’m a terrible barrister or anything although I don’t pretend to be particularly good either. But this barrister was a veritable Rolls Royce from the start and there is nothing more to say than that he absolutely wiped the floor with me. Kind of like putting a kid in the ring with Mike Tyson and telling him to make the best of it.

Which does make me wonder exactly what is the price of justice.  Today it was two grand. On another day, maybe less. If the stakes are higher, I’m sure it could be in the millions. But whatever it is, there’s a price. Otherwise, why would people spend big bucks on big lawyer? Certainly not as some sort of kind charitable gesture to lawyers. As I’ve said so many times. It’s all about the money.

Maybe we should be open and transparent about it and just stick justice on eBay and see what it fetches? Sell it down the Swanee river once and for all and be done with it.

BabyBarista is a fictional account of a junior barrister written by Tim Kevan. You can buy the latest BabyBarista novel, 'Law and Peace' on Amazon. The cartoons are by Alex Williams, author of The Queen's Counsel Lawyer's Omnibus.

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