Legal Policy

Clients will be requested to confirm that they have read and understood the following statement prior to commencement of business.

RC 144 Statement

Mr Guy Tinsley LLM, Barrister (unregistered)

  1. This statement is to explain my status in offering to provide legal services to clients.
  2. Legal services includes; legal advice, representation and drafting or settling any statement of case, witness statement, affidavit or other legal document but does not include:
    • sitting as a judge or arbitrator or acting as a mediator, early neutral evaluation, expert determination and adjudications;
    • lecturing in or teaching law or writing or editing law books articles or reports;
    • examining newspapers, periodicals, books, scripts and other publications for libel, breach of copyright, contempt of court and the like;
    • communicating to or in the press or other media;
    • giving advice on legal matters free to a friend or relative or acting as unpaid or honorary legal adviser to any charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution;
    • in relation to a barrister who is a non-executive director of a company or a trustee or governor of a charitable, benevolent or philanthropic institution or a trustee of any private trust, giving to the other directors’ trustees or governors the benefit of his learning and experience on matters of general legal principle applicable to the affairs of the company institution or trust;
    • early neutral evaluation, expert determination and adjudications.
  3. Although I am qualified as a barrister, I am not entitled to practise as a barrister. I do not have a practising certificate and am not on the register of practising barristers. Therefore, in providing any legal services to you I am not acting as a barrister and I am not subject to many of the rules which regulate practising barristers.
  4. Therefore, in providing any legal services to you I am not acting as a barrister and I am not subject to many of the rules which regulate practising barristers.
  5. This limits the services I can provide to you. I can provide you with legal advice and represent you before certain Tribunals, but I cannot exercise rights of audience in Court, subject to certain exceptions.
  6. However, it is important to note that I am a member or the profession and at all times remain subject to certain Core Duties and Conduct Rules, as stated by the Bar Standards Board.
  7. I aim to provide you with an excellent service and if you have any concerns about what I do for you, please let me know and I will try to resolve the problem. But you should know that you would have only limited rights to complain about me to anyone else.
  8. The Legal Ombudsman, which can adjudicate on complaints about poor service by practising barristers, cannot consider any complaint against me.
  9. If I cannot resolve your concerns, you can complain to the Bar Standards Boar and it will investigate whether I have failed to comply with any of the rules which apply to me, but it cannot investigate possible breaches of rules which apply only to practising barristers.
  10. I am covered by professional indemnity insurance, in certain circumstances.
  11. In respect of any legal advice I provide, there is a substantial risk that you will not be able to rely on legal advice privilege.

Guy W Tinsley
Clipston, Nottinghamshire, England,
09 February 2025

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