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charges relating to recovery company for keeping my car

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  • skivenov
    skivenov Posts: 2,204 Forumite
    In the scale of things, if you've got the means, I'd say don't sweat the small stuff, pay the £200 under duress and worry about it later.
    Hackman wrote: »
    Yeah right, if a barrister has to stoop to that it ain't going to trial.

    I'm not a legal professional, but based on experience, here's what I'll say.

    A solicitors job is to know the law.

    A barrister's job is to make someone look a c**t. They're one of the highest paid professions you're ever likely to encounter. They get paid hundreds of pounds more than you and me (or at least me) a day for making people look like c**ts, and they get paid it, so one can assume they're generally rather good at it, and will make you look a c**t by any means at their disposal. They do however, have to act within the law, which is what you want a solicitor, or ideally a barrister of your own, for.
    Yes it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
    Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 33,091 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    He tried to entice MP's into his car by leaving a trail of expense claim forms.

    It was all going well until he realised that a Smart for 2 was not the ideal car when a queue of 20+ MPs suddenly appeared.

    MPs were so distressed by the ordeal of him running out of expense forms they duly had him arrested.

    Although i may have just dreamt that. Damn these new tablets are good :)
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

  • rix195
    rix195 Posts: 11 Forumite
    forgotmyname, I liked your joke when I read it, it cracked me up couldn't stop laughing lol. Mine is nowhere near what MP's have gotten away with yet there still not behind bars that's the irony. The rich get away with it while the common public the poor person have to go through all this and get put behind bars. Even the police get away with it when I saw the police officer in the news who pushed that man in the protest who fell to the ground who later died because of that police officer. Yet the police officer got away with it corruption or what? The police, the courts, the mp's there still the same elite ruling class people but with a different mask. The common public the poor people are the outsiders to them they look at us as we're some kind of filth to them.
  • Hackman_2
    Hackman_2 Posts: 197 Forumite
    rix195 wrote: »
    forgotmyname, I liked your joke when I read it, it cracked me up couldn't stop laughing lol. Mine is nowhere near what MP's have gotten away with yet there still not behind bars that's the irony. The rich get away with it while the common public the poor person have to go through all this and get put behind bars. Even the police get away with it when I saw the police officer in the news who pushed that man in the protest who fell to the ground who later died because of that police officer. Yet the police officer got away with it corruption or what? The police, the courts, the mp's there still the same elite ruling class people but with a different mask. The common public the poor people are the outsiders to them they look at us as we're some kind of filth to them.

    If you did what you're accused of, you put yourself behind bars. Nobody to blame but yourself.

    However as you have yet to be convicted you are innocent so there is obviously good reason why you weren't given bail.
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