Brendan Burgess
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Unless you've been in the system and seen these guys operate, you won't really appreciate the gulf between solicitor, Junior Council and Senior Counsel.
Granted this is blurred somewhat where you have a JC who shows aptitude and ability and is "on the cusp", but these advance to SC soon enough.
A look at the average years taken to go from JC to SC might be instructive - last time I checked it was something like 15 years.
The titles are intended to reflect this different in competence.
If the law were reformed to allow barristers to be sued for negligence, it will quickly put an end to the above sort of nonsense.he backed away, stating it would not be seemly for him - as a Junior Counsel - to issue an opinion that contradicted a Senior Counsel.
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the solicitor and I had a very frank meeting with the Senior Counsel in which he admitted our arguments had merit - but wouldn't withdraw the Opinion!
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