“I have thought about it. I don’t have the extra money to pay a barrister. You did the last hearing for me in the Upper Tribunal so you can do the next one. Sorry, I don’t think we need anyone else, that’s why I came to you in the first place. And I told you last summer I don’t need to go to a legal aid lawyer. So, what are our next steps?”, enquired my consumer.
“Thanks for letting me know, I will be reviewing your case once again and will be in touch in a day or two”, I responded, taking all of it in stride. This was simply three weeks prior to a fancy Article 3 appeal listening to. I had tried and failed to persuade my consumer(FM) to let exterior counsel symbolize him at his listening to. I had even ready a listing of barrister’s profiles from completely different chambers to go over with FM. External counsel involvement was thought of to give FM a great shot at his upcoming appeal listening to.
Weeks later in August 2022, while leaving the listening to venue, we revisited this explicit dialog.
“I knew what I was doing”, mentioned FM as he smiled, “you know everything about my case and I was not going let anyone new come in and handle my case.”
When I broke the information to FM yesterday over the cellphone that the First Tier Tribunal had allowed his appeal, this time he broke into loud joyous laughter while repeatedly asking, “Are you sure, did we win, did we really win? please let me sit down in case I fall!”
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