... self employed and work in chambers surrounded by others and managed by a clerk, they do advocacy in the superior courts as well as having rights to the audience in the lower courts. As you can tell barristers have a very high up role and bad work they do makes them look very bad considering they are supposed to be professional and have trained for a long time to get to where they are. As they are self employed any mistakes are aimed directly at them and as they are usually been paid very highly by their client if their performance in court does not match up to the expectations after the client has paid a lot of money can make the Barrister look bad as he/she will be the person responsible. Solicitor are governed by the law society, they can form partnerships and work in ordinary offices all over England and ...

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