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Both England and Wales have a large number of people involved with the law in different ways. These range all the way from the humble juror to the Queen herself, each vital to keeping the legal cogs moving. Read on to find out who does what.
Lawyers
A lawyer is anyone who practices law. That includes solicitors, barristers, and legal executives. That means that a solicitor is a lawyer and a barrister is also a lawyer. Lawyers often get a bad press and this is often expressed in countless anti-lawyer jokes.
Solicitors
Solicitors are lawyers who work in litigation1, and work relating to business outside of court.
In litigation solicitors generally advise clients, prepare cases and advocate2 in the lower courts3. Only recently have solicitors been able to present their own cases in court. Traditionally the solicitor provided details of their clients case to a barrister who actually advocated in court.
The second and larger part of a solicitors work is all the nitty gritty legal work outside of court in a range of different areas, such as :
commercial transactions
land
corporate matters
share and property dealings
property conveyancing
family and civil matters
making wills
advising on tax matters
estates
solicitors often give general and specialist legal advice
Barristers
Barristers are legal advisers and advocates in the higher courts4. Advocating cases in court means that barristers have to be able to speak and think quickly on their feet as the evidence develops. The mission statement of a barrister would be to make sure all points of law, and facts that favour their clients case, are brought to the courts attention and that justice is done.
Possibly the most famous fictional barrister is Rumpole of the Bailey, a rather portly, irreverent barrister, part
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