Solicitors can now apply for rights of audience in all courts so both barristers and solicitors can carry out the same advocacy work
How many solicitors are there with higher rights of audience?
6,500
Since when can a person with a civil dispute go straight to a barrister?
2004
What is direct access?
Where a person with a civil dispute can go straight to a barrister meaning that the barrister will then do the preparatory work in the case - which only solicitors could previously do
