Solicitors / Doctors who have barred former client

5rtytry56

Do you know of a professional who won't have a previous client attend? On what grounds? Don't reply if lack of money - I'm thinking of other reasons well, this is AH. Fire away

MilesMorales1

What?

Erik Shin

Same as you'd be barred from any business

Oops69

Rudeness and agression by the client biggest reason in my experience

corner of hells

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Do you know of a professional who won't have a previous client attend? On what grounds? Don't reply if lack of money - I'm thinking of other reasons well, this is AH. Fire away

Does a hooker count as the professional?

Peregrinus

Lawyers have ethical obligations which in some circumstances prevent them from acting for a client (most obviously, conflict of interest or exclusive retainer) but in other circumstances may prevent them from refusing to act for a client (people accuses of a crime are entitled to legal representation, which limits the ability of lawyers to refuse to represent them).

But, leaving those aside, as a lawyer you don't often feel like turning a client aways because, you know, you need the fees. But I have turned away a client who previously had refused to accept my advice - he shouldn't be instructing me if he has no confidence in my advice - and I have turned away a client who persistently communicated directly with the other side in a dispute without telling me that he was doing so, or what he was saying to them, and who was saying things that I certainly would have advised him not to say, which left me in a very embarrassing position when I was supposedly representing him.

biko

Is that you Irish Mirror?

DEFTLEFTHAND

I know of a couple of Solicitors who were struck off by the Law Society.

All were sole practitioners who were delving into the Client Account.

Many small firms went tits up when the recession hit and they became desperate.

I've told clients to take their files and go bother someone who might listen to them and their nonsense. Generally on the grounds that they are arseholes. I find it arises in family law more often than other areas eg. mothers who refuse to allow access take place despite Court Orders and warnings from the bench, expect you to help them, but get hysterical when you point out that it can end in jail for persistent breach of an Order, or even the child taken off them.