Posted: Friday, 4 January 2019 @ 13:43
One of the trends which I have noticed with the downturn over the past five years is the number of people within a variety of different legal issues who now deal with their own legal problems.(e.g they do not take advice).
In addition, there are an increasing number of companies/organisations who provide a legal advice service be that low cost telephone advice or free information on the internet.
On the one hand this is good, people are getting to solve their own problems rather than paying a very high solicitors rate or worse, doing nothing.
However, there are problems.
From experience I am coming across people who are simply out of their depth. Say, they start doing their Tribunal claim and they end up stuck in the legal system having started something. More often than not, they do something which is damaging on their case. The results are often not pretty. It really is a matter of balance and deciding when you need help and when you can do it yourself..