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Author	Cessdon
Comment	My best friend was arrested and charged and used the on call duty solicitor. This was in Glasgow. The woman was about 1 year out of university and when he'd visit her office there was always a pile of cases about 2 foot high on her desk of which his was often buried underneath. She told him he was going to get a custodial sentence of 1-3 years, 1 year if lucky. She then completely missed that the key piece of evidence in his case (a forensic report) had been in her office for over a week, all the while he was having a mental health breakdown waiting for this report. It was only by pure chance that one of her colleagues overhead him asking about the report and dug it out. She was completely off the ball and obviously overworked. He then changed his solicitor to one recommend to him. Suffice to say he got the guy community service and a supervision order as well as dropping one charge and amending another to a lower severity. Had he listened to the one originally provided him he would have been going in aiming for a low custodial sentence. He told me from the get go it was obvious she didn't like him nor believe him about what had happened. That she made one or 2 very off colour comments about his morality in regards to the offenses. Some rich middle class solicitors on this page might not believe such a thing happens. Utter bullshit. The poor, the low class, those from schemes, those with no money to afford their services must rely on incredibly overworked, sometimes inexperienced junior solicitors whose ability to earn money for their firm is reliant on the production line of poor people/menial offenses who rely on free representation.
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Created	Wed 29th Jun 2022 5:57pm
Status	normal ()

My best friend was arrested and charged and used the on call duty solicitor. This was in Glasgow. The woman was about 1 year out of university and when he'd visit her office there was always a pile of cases about 2 foot high on her desk of which his was often buried underneath.

She told him he was going to get a custodial sentence of 1-3 years, 1 year if lucky. She then completely missed that the key piece of evidence in his case (a forensic report) had been in her office for over a week, all the while he was having a mental health breakdown waiting for this report. It was only by pure chance that one of her colleagues overhead him asking about the report and dug it out. She was completely off the ball and obviously overworked.

He then changed his solicitor to one recommend to him. Suffice to say he got the guy community service and a supervision order as well as dropping one charge and amending another to a lower severity. Had he listened to the one originally provided him he would have been going in *aiming* for a low custodial sentence.

He told me from the get go it was obvious she didn't like him nor believe him about what had happened. That she made one or 2 very off colour comments about his morality in regards to the offenses.

Some rich middle class solicitors on this page might not believe such a thing happens. Utter bullshit. The poor, the low class, those from schemes, those with no money to afford their services must rely on incredibly overworked, sometimes inexperienced junior solicitors whose ability to earn money for their firm is reliant on the production line of poor people/menial offenses who rely on free representation.