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Originally Posted by Geoffrey Collier
If the UKIP NEC instructed a solicitor to seek advice from a barrister, they will have got little change from £1000. per hour. The next question must be; what advice did that barrister give the solicitor, which would not have already have been known by any competent practising solicitor? Not for the first time we have been wasting money on
on ludicrous legal actions. Which was the solicitors' practice acting for UKIP? Would it be a name familiar to us, I wonder! The cost of this action should be made known. Perhaps Marta Andreasen will tell us, if we promise to support her, in any future career
development plan.
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Don't be daft Geoffrey. Legal advice does not normally run at £1000/hr. You will probably find that a "Grade A" solicitor (typically a partner) outside of London will charge £200 and those of us with less experience between £130-$150. You can find plenty of barristers who charge out at £225/hr or so. Yes at the top end of large city firms of solicitors practicing corporate or banking law you may find senior partners charging close to £1000 (actually £800 per hour is probably the top rate). And I don't doubt that when people like Sir Paul McCartney get divorced they pay top flight barristers a lot more than the average, but as usual, it is the exception that proves the rule.