Two Types of Lawyers in UK: Benefits and Expensive Legal Fees

This article discusses the two types of lawyers in the UK - solicitors and barristers. It explores the benefits and drawbacks of having two types of lawyers and analyzes whether customers are getting real access to justice or being charged with expensive legal fees. The roles and responsibilities of solicitors and barristers are explained, along with the effectiveness of the legal system. The article also highlights the changes brought by the UK government to ensure accountability and the right to sue negligent lawyers.

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
In any of the nation law has its own important as it gives idea about the decision which
person should take in any of the situation. Law is defined as rules enforced by legislative body
which is required to be followed by each of the person as well as entity including government
leaders. Law has its own importance within business sector where it describes that how any of
the business can perform its activity in regular basis where while following law and regulation
person as well as entity must be able to consider ethical values which plays crucial role on a
daily basis. In context of the file, focus will be on legal profession in United Kingdom where
they have work on two types of lawyer. It will be analysed whether there are any benefits of
different types of lawyer or not or people are simply reaped off by unwarranted expensive legal
fees.
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?
In any of the legal matter legal advisor plays the most crucial role as they have detail
knowledge about each and every matter. It is important to understand that person must be able to
proper advice. In context of UK, legal profession has been working in best possible manner to
provide the services to each person so that any of the legal matter can be sorted out with effective
result. There are basically two different types of lawyer which can be found within UK and they
are Solicitor and Barristers. Detail discussion about both types of lawyer has been mentioned
below:
Junior Lawyer (Solicitor): Solicitors are the simply known as legal advisor who has the
responsibility to deal with minor level of problem which person faces on a daily basis. The
advices which are given by Solicitors are always based on minor level where they have only
limited information about specific topic but those particular information allows to resolve the
issues in short time period. The responsibility which has been given to solicitors to deal with in
the premises of UK is all about contract, business related issues, wills, inheritance etc (Alfawaer,
2017). Law society of England & Wales gives the authority to deal with any of the case to
Junior Lawyer and it is necessary for them to understand that guidelines which are given by law
society must be considered so that lawyer can allow themselves to bring out the best result.

Senior Lawyer (Barrister): Barristers are the legal advisor in UK which are known as
specialised in their own sector and it becomes necessary for them to follow all of the guidelines
for finding out the solution. Also, ethical values must be focused by barristers. It is necessary for
any of the person to take the help of barristers in that particular situation where case cannot be
resolved by Solicitors or any of the criminal offence has been charged upon defaulter. The fee
which is charged by barristers are quite high due to which person tries to take the help of
solicitors at initial level. Generally, barristers deal with higher level of case where they case is
not allowed to be covered by outsiders because of the confidentiality of the case (Musson, 2018).
In UK, barristers are regulated as per the guidelines of Barristers Association. Also, any of the
barristers have the option where they can deal with case from initial level which is not
permissible to solicitors.
In UK, both of this lawyer have different types of roles which they must be able to comply
with. The main purpose of dividing the role of lawyer is just to ensure that each of the case can
be resolved in short time period with less number of errors and issues. There are specific
guidelines which are also required to be followed by lawyers whenever they deal with any of the
case. It needs to be understood that the system of adaptation of two different types of lawyer
might become expensive as well in some of the situation but the most important thing is that this
type of process for resolving the problem is always result oriented in nature through which client
can shut down the matter in short time period (Concept and Differences between a Lawyer, a
Solicitor and a Barrister in UK, 2019). Even there are some of the limitation as well under which
any of the barristers needs to meets with client only in that particular situation where they gets
advice from solicitors. This means of deals within lawyer is expensive as well as time consuming
as well which sometimes create issues for client.
At the same time while talking about other nation, they rely on single solicitors only
because of the requirement of situation. There is concept that if two different types of lawyer will
be there then client might get confused that who can be helpful for then in dealing out with case
but at the same time this not seen within the case where only one type of lawyer is available. It is
because there is no requirement for client follow specific process but they can simply decide
which type of lawyer can be helpful for them in resolving the case in short time period. But,

there are number of drawbacks as well because whenever any of the lawyer enters into the
market it becomes difficult for them to get any of the new work. But when it comes to UK
opportunity is provided to new talent as well where they start their carrier as a solicitor which is
very much important to improve level of knowledge.
Now the main thing which needs to be clear is that whether adaptation of two types of
lawyer process is effective or it is just an expensive process where public has to suffer. Here, it is
required to be said that whenever any of this situation occurs where legal processional is required
for resolving issue then in UK, the process becomes lengthy but at the same time it is result
oriented which allows the person to think positively (Qunran and Chen, 2019). As cases are
needed to be given to solicitors at initial level means that there are higher possibilities that if
solicitors will be able to resolve the problem then case can be resolved in short time duration and
even it will be less expensive as well. Barrister has to deal with complex process due to which
different category has been divided which makes people to understand that higher charges may
occur to resolve the issue.
In order to attain better result, UK government have brought some of the changes within
the law process where they have ensured that any of the client can sue solicitors if they will be
found to be negligent in their work. This was proposed from one of the famous case between
Rhondel v Worsley (1969), in which it was seen that solicitors were not perform his part of
work as per the requirement of law (Feres, Silva and Silva, 2018). Similarly, amendment has
been brought within the law where right has been given to sue barristers as well which was not
available for client before the judgement came out in the case between Hall v Simons (July
2000) (Shen, 2018). Overall, it states that in some of the situation adaptation of two type of
lawyer system can be expensive but at the same time it may allow to find the conclusion in the
case which is very much important in the aspects of any case in current scenario.
CONCLUSION
After having the detail analysis to the case, it can be concluded in the case that law and
ethics must be considered in business as well professional sector. Following rules and regulation
simply allows to accomplish the goals in very short time duration which is very much important
in current scenario. Government of UK believes in two different types of lawyer because it
simply reduces the burden for resolving the case because any of the case can be sorted out in

quick succession just because of solicitors and lawyer. If in any of the situation people sees that
lawyer is not performing their part of work then UK legislation allows the public to take legal
action against defaulter.
REFERENCES
Books & Journals
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Musson, A., 2018. Medieval law in context: the growth of legal consciousness from Magna
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Qunran, Q. and Chen, Y., 2019. The People's Assessors in China's Legal System: Current Legal
Structure for Their Duty and Its Justification. Tsinghua China L. Rev., 12, p.171.
Shen, G., 2018. Revision of China's Legislation Law: Towards a More Orderly, Fair and Just
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Feres, M. V. C., Silva, L. A. D. and Silva, A., 2018. The Constitutional Principle of Scientific
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