English Bar Council calls for prohibition of referral fees

The Bar Council and the Criminal Bar Association have released a joint statement calling on the Legal Services Board to prohibit referral fees in the legal profession.

In a forceful defence of fiduciary standards the statement says that there "can be no halfway house compromise in relation to advocacy" and that clients' rights to the best representation "cannot be allowed to be prejudiced by referral fees."

For further details see The Law Gazette article here.