Types of Lawyers in UK: Solicitors and Barristers

This article discusses the two types of lawyers in the UK - solicitors and barristers. It explores whether customers are getting real access to justice or being charged expensive legal fees. The roles and responsibilities of each type of lawyer are explained. The article also highlights the benefits and drawbacks of having two types of lawyers in the UK.

Business law and
ethics

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Discussion about two types of lawyer in UK. Also, are the customers getting real access to
justice or simply reaped off by unwarranted expensive legal fees?............................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Law in any of the nation is equal for anybody which is to be followed where it might be seen
that changes can be found with the guidelines which is just because of the requirement of
specific place. The main purpose behind enforcement of any law is just to ensure everybody is
being treated equally where powers are given equal to each of the person. Nobody has the right
to breach any of the law and if that happens then role of judiciary body increases automatically.
This particular file is based on lawyer of your where it will be majorly focused that dividing the
lawyer into different category is a right decision or not or simply people have to face different
kind of issues because of this respective process.
MAIN BODY
Discussion about two types of lawyer in UK. Also, are the customers getting real access to
justice or simply reaped off by unwarranted expensive legal fees?
Any of the nation have the mentality where they like to enforce those laws and policies
which can allow them to set the standards through which each of the work can be performed in a
systematic manner. Similarly, UK is among one of the top nation where they focus on rules and
policies so that any of the person do not have to have any sort of problem. In order to provide
justice or resolve any of the legal matter, lawyers are the who has been working actively within
the premises of UK. In UK, legislative have categories their lawyer into two categories and they
solicitor and barristers but at the same time there are number of nation who have the mentality
that even there is no requirement of dividing the roles of lawyers (Gillers, 2014). Different nation
thinks that dividing the lawyers will increase overall burden upon client but at the same time UK
government takes it as a great opportunity to resolve the number of pending cases at a very high
speed. In order to understand the concept in detail, information regarding lawyers has been
discussed below
Junior Lawyer (Solicitors): The lawyers who has the responsibility to deal with less
complex process of legal cases, especially in civil cases is known as Solicitors. Most of the
lawyers who falls under this category are fresher’s who have very less experience as compared to
other lawyers. The main purpose of any solicitors is to resolve the case in quick succession so
that client can find out the solution (Tsalikis and Fritzsche, 2013). The cases with which
solicitors deals are always related with corporation law, family law, will related issues and many

more. In order to perform any of the legal work, lawyer is needed to obtain permission from
society of England and Wales. It is essential for the lawyers to follow every single guideline
where if they fail in this respective process then client gets the right where they can take legal
action against defaulter. Additional, society of England and Wales has been working effectively
along with Solicitors so that they can work in the favour of client.
Barristers: This are the lawyers who are professional in their field have detail knowledge
regarding each of the policies of laws and regulation so that any of the problem which is being
faced by clients can be resolved easily. The most important thing which any of the barristers has
to follow is that they should be able to work ethical without creating any of the legal problem for
client because that is the only process through which effective result can be obtained within the
case. This types of lawyer are mainly appointed in those situation where cases are of serious
offence which cannot be resolved without the guidance of barristers (Management Association,
2015). All of the lawyers who falls under the category of barristers have to perform their work as
per the guidance of Barristers Association and if in case barrister fails to do so then legal action
can be taken upon them. Also, cases of barristers take usually long time period to resolve the
problem as compared to other level of lawyers which is the most important thing which must be
considered.
Looking at the above discussion, it can be easily understood that both of this lawyers
have equal opportunity to perform better in their own field but their roles and responsibility are
completely different from each other. Both of this lawyer have to ensure that they are working
effectively so that cases can be resolved. In context of client, this are the process which can be
expensive in some of the situation but it also need to be understand that dividing the lawyers
have allowed the local people to save money and time both. Also, there are some of the situation
where client have to pay additional because some of the cases cannot be solved by solicitor
where solicitor requires the help of barristers to resolved the issue. In short, there are some of the
situation where this particular process creates issues for client to resolve their legal issues and in
some of the situation it is favourable as well (Greene, 2015).
In present scenario, lots of data can be collected easily which means that the process of
lawyer can be easily compared with other nation where it is seen that they have the believe that
only one type of lawyer should be there. The reason behind this is to make the concept very

simply and easy for customers. But at the same time, it is necessary to understand that UK have
the believe that this process do not allow the new lawyer to explore themselves and it can be
divided then there is huge opportunity to attain effective result in future time period (Ingleby and
Gibby, 2016). Here, in UK client is just needed to select the lawyer and afterword all of the legal
process will be handled by them which provides additional benefits to the client. In short, it is
said that client can be benefitted from this respective process of resolving any of the legal issues.
Here, it needed to be understand that whether two different types of lawyer are helpful for
UK clients or it is just generating higher expenses for the client. It is needed to understand that
although this process is expensive but it simply allows to resolve the issues in very short time
period which is very much important in current scenario (Peterson, 2013). Solicitors easily work
in favourable manner where they try to resolve the cases in very short time period with low
amount of fees. But, in another nation client do not have the knowledge that how they need to
deal with lawyer where they have to pay higher fees. It means that this process is effective for
the clients in UK.
Although, there were some of the issues at initial time period but after certain changes it has
made more flexible for people to resolve the case. The changes show that in any of the situation
if appointed lawyer do not perform their part of work as per the given guidelines then legal
action can be taken upon them. This concept was derived from the case between Rhondel v
Worsley (1969). This case gave the idea that client is allowed to file the case against solicitors if
they perform any of the default (Coggon, 2014). In the similar way, concept was derived for
barriers in case of Hall v Simons in 2000 where judges decided that barristers will be held liable
if they will not perform any of the work in ethical manner.
In short, both of this cases have allowed the clients to take against defaulter which means
that concept of two different types of lawyer is helpful for client where they are not required to
pay higher amount of fees as well.
CONCLUSION
After having the discussion on different types of lawyer, it can be assumed that dividing the
category is helpful for people as well as for lawyer field because it simply allows the new talent
to explore themselves within the market which is very much important. Dividing the role has

also allowed to make things more favourable for client because high chances is there that cases
can be resolved in very short time of duration. In addition, client also gets the right to take legal
action against lawyer if that do not follow proper procedure and also if they are working
unethically.
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Books & Journals
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Business.
Management Association ed., 2015. Business Law and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools,
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Greene, J. D., 2015. Beyond point-and-shoot morality: Why cognitive (neuro) science matters
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Coggon, J., 2014. Global health, law and ethics: Fragmented sovereignty and the limits of
universal theory.
Ingleby, E. and Gibby, C., 2016. Law and ethics: problematising the role of the foundation
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