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The Times
June 23 1998
Advocating a finer time
SOLICITOR-advocates are having a good run. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine of Lairg, will any day now announce wider rights of audience for employed lawyers and, last week, the inquiry by the law lords into legal aid fees charged by QCs in appeals featured two solicitor-advocates.
Lawrence Collins, the first solicitor-advocate to be made a QC, and Anne Coles, the society's own legal adviser and one of the first employed solicitors to act as a junior, represented the Law Society.
The solicitor-advocate David Price won the right to conduct litigation for a client he had previously advised - as barristers can. The ruling came in a libel action brought by Linford Christie over an article in Spiked magazine by John McVicar. Mr Christie's lawyers applied to have Mr Price disbarred from action.
Mr Justice Popplewell ruled against Price, but he won in the Court of Appeal: Lord Justice Stuart Smith said it seemed "extraordinary" that because Mr Price was a solicitor-advocate, he could not act when a barrister could.
