Thread by @c0unse1

First time I have had to calculate whether I can actually accept instructions.

Trial next week, a gang stealing ATMs by ripping out of walls and placing on to flat-bed trucks.

Serious work you might think? Worthy of senior counsel, albeit not silk.

1/5

Charged as conspiracy to burgle. Scheme 10 AGFS

Around 8500 pages of evidence

Brief fee £550 (to include first day of trial)
Refresher £300/day
Daily travel to court out of town, which won’t be paid, back £65.

2/5

Interestingly, this is the same charge as Hatton Garden burglary. £250 to prep a trial of this nature? What sort of insanity is this?

And yet I’m considering it. Work is work and when all cases are poorly paid, why not take serious work. The alternative is £0 and no work.

3/5

After travel & chamb %, works out at £170/day.

Entire trial prep for £250 is, effectively, pro bono? Not even going to work out an hourly rate as that would prove too depressing.

Question is do I want to work 24/7 from now till Monday, blow away the weekend, & for £250?

4/5

I’m still undecided whether to take this brief or not. I came into the job to do exactly this sort of work.

Serious, demanding, challenging.

I didn’t come into it to do it effectively, pro bono.

Am I a #fatcat? Should I take the brief?

@TheCriminalBar #thelawisbroken

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