BBC website - lawyer trying to force banks to reveal costs

Tozer

Nathan_Spleen wrote: »

In fact lets have a little wager on it shall we? May as well make it interesting.

Wadaya say Tozer?

On what? Officers of the Court have public duties - hence swearing rights.

Frankly I am surprised thats all. And no, I really cannot be arsed reporting it to the Bar. They would have no jurisdiction over him if he is not a barrister anyway so whats your point?????

"Hi someone says he's a barrister, but he isn't".

"OK, we will debar him...oh we can't"

Tozer

Nathan_Spleen wrote: »

Well if you if you think he's a fake why don't you report him to the bar?

They way I see it, the only basis for your argument is the non-appearance
of his name on some list...hardly convincing stuff is it?

Oh and "some list" is the record of barristers in England and Wales.

Get your facts right.

digp

Tozer wrote: »

Rubbish. If he says he is a barrister then he must show up as being called to the bar whether he is newly qualified or not.

When I was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors, I was on publicly available lists straight away.

And no it is not cut down at all.

You're a solicitor ? :RFLOL:

Then I'm the Chief Justice of the World Court :RFLOL:

Nathan_Spleen

digp wrote: »

You're a solicitor ? :RFLOL:

Then I'm the Chief Justice of the World Court :RFLOL:

Sanity, at last.

I wonder if they do a list of mentaly unstable 'solicitors' & members who can't refrain from boasting
about being a 'lawyer' at every oportunity?

digp

hahahaha

that's funny.

hibees1875_2

No! I'M the chief justice of the world court.

Optimist

If I may interject in this entertaining discussion. You wont find Tom Brennan on the public part of the bar council site as he is registered as non-practising and that list only gives lists of practising barristers in the UK. . In fact just looking at it, it seems to be at least two months out of date as my God daughter was accepted into chambers over two months ago, and she is not listed yet.

Tom Brennan has completed his pupillage (Oct 2006) and that makes him a qualified barrister. For him actually to have got a pupillage is endorsement in itself as the majority of hopefuls don't. Since he finished his pupillage he hasn't been practising but working for a local council giving planning advice.

There are many reasons he might not be practising, one of which is that it if the chambers that give the pupillage don't offer a place in chambers you have to try find a chambers that will as it is prohibitively expensive to start on your own.

pete-in-london

More stuff in the press regarding this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6609743.stm

digp

Optimist wrote: »

If I may interject in this entertaining discussion. You wont find Tom Brennan on the public part of the bar council site as he is registered as non-practising and that list only gives lists of practising barristers in the UK. . In fact just looking at it, it seems to be at least two months out of date as my God daughter was accepted into chambers over two months ago, and she is not listed yet.

Tom Brennan has completed his pupillage (Oct 2006) and that makes him a qualified barrister. For him actually to have got a pupillage is endorsement in itself as the majority of hopefuls don't. Since he finished his pupillage he hasn't been practising but working for a local council giving planning advice.

There are many reasons he might not be practising, one of which is that it if the chambers that give the pupillage don't offer a place in chambers you have to try find a chambers that will as it is prohibitively expensive to start on your own.

close, but not quite.

digp

Is this the barrister representing Natwest: http://www.4pumpcourt.com/Default.aspx?sID=797&cID=72&ctID=36 ?

If it is, here's some more info on him: http://www.legal500.com/legal500_html/l500/formex/pps/ukp41108.htm

Can you believe Natwest's barrister said

Mr Pilling also argued that Mr Brennan should look to the OFT's recently launched enquiry into personal banking as a means of establishing if the banks were behaving against the interests of consumers.

I find it astonishing that he said that. What a tw*t.