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Sunday, November 06, 2005

"Hello, you have reached customer defendant service. Press 1 if you are charged with burglary....."

Gavin at Diary of a Criminal Solicitor reports that the British Legal Services Commission is beginning a pilot program to determine whether it is feasible to offer legal advice to those arrested and in custody at a police station through a call center.

If they actually go through with this, I suppose it is only a matter of time before this is outsourced and you wind up talking to a solicitor in Bombay.

2 comments:

Boyd said...

At the risk of being pedantic, wouldn't that be a barrister?

Have Opinion Will Travel said...

Actually, according to the press release, solicitor is correct. If I remeber my "Rumpole of the Bailey" correctly, barristers don't get involved until the case goes to trial.