liadnan

People become lawyers, and particularly barristers or litigation orientated solicitors, for a wide variety of reasons, including many lofty and principled ones. However, I have to confess that as far as I'm concerned, the sheer sensation of winning a fairly big and hard fought case that might well have gone the other way and then hammering the opposition on costs when your opponent was assuming they were actually going to get their costs even if we won, and then, frankly, looking at the draft invoice for your brief fee and refreshers before it goes out, is pretty hard to beat.

I hasten to add that I do have lofty and noble principles as well. It's just I quite like winning, and also being paid...

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liadnan

It happens, and there's a limited amount that one can do about it at the moment, for reasons that make little sense and would be excessively tedious to explain. Those who instructed me on this case have always been extremely good about paying though, plus the outcome of the particular case is that the clients, in the person of their solicitors, now have control of an existing pot of cash that's been in litigation limbo for the last couple of years, and therefore no excuse for not paying me from it forthwith.