Why Use Direct Legal Services?

Fixed Price Quotations

Unlike usually instructing a barrister, all works we do are on a fixed fee basis.

Price

Unlike when instructing counsel through your solicitor, you will only have to pay one legal professional, the barrister.

Speed of Advice

Counsels opinion takes on average 2 months through a solicitor, we can return advice within hours!

Quality Of Advice

Unlike instructing through your solicitor, you get to brief counsel yourself and describe what has taken place in your own words. Solicitors will often attempt to ‘translate’ your issue for the barrister leading to confusion, inaccuracy and higher costs.

Selection of Barristers

Most solicitors will instruct their local barrister’s chambers or a barrister they have a standing relationship with. Only around 2-3% of practising barristers are qualified to speak directly to members of the public. Direct Legal Services has access to over 18,000 different barristers, ensuring your legal issue is addressed by suitably qualified counsel.

The Benson Royal Commission on legal services went as so far to describe the use of a solicitor with a barrister as, “like a taxi traveller hiring two taxis at once when one would be sufficient to get him to his destination”