I read the title of this thread and thought: what is the relevance of the age of the person serving a lethal beverage?
22-year-old woman's punch kills man.
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Why should we care what a prostitute thinks?
Solicitors are British lawyers, you twonk.
I suspect he knows that...
The US has a "Solicitor General." Clearly he is the pimp of all pimps.
I can tell you that it caused a few laughs when i told an american mate that my girlfriend wanted to become a solicitor... He never lets us forget that one.
Then again, its a break from all the cougar jokes. She's two weeks older than me. But our mates make it sound like she's bloody forty... Ironically, if I had been born on time, I would be older than her.
More specifically, solicitors are lawyers who deal directly with the client, while barristers argue cases in court.
Do they still wear those silly wigs?
More specifically, solicitors are lawyers who deal directly with the client, while barristers argue cases in court.
Do they still wear those silly wigs?
Indeed.
As far as I know, those bloody things are still used. But the bloke I know has been retired for five years. So it might've changed since then.
Poor woman. You should be nicer... Hmm, this must be the reason they are called our better half.
So if you go to court does that mean you need two lawyers? One solicitor and one barrister?
Precisely.
Crudely put, but essentially yes. While Wikipedia is not a source I'd otherwise recommend, this time it explains the differences very well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solicitor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrister
It's not that much different from practice in the US, except we don't differentiate by name. If you go to a large law firm with a litigation matter, associates will do all of the work (research & interviewing, even most of the depositions) because they bill out at a lower rate. When it comes to actually trying the case, they become second chair while the partner actually tries the case in court, and typically will be the one arguing in the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. Every lawyer who passes the Bar and gets sworn is a barrister-equivalent, but in reality, most spend their early years doing solicitor-type work.
Correction to the correction,
Sometimes one punch is all it takes. Which is why you don't go around asking to get punched.
I'd a friend who was studying law at University, she'd a t-shirt with "learning to solicit at..." on it.
