No idea, hard graft or luck. Perhaps the dispatch riding paid for the fees to become a Solicitor and from there to a barrister. Met people through work who are way overqualified for the manual labour they do. Stand out is a chap who has Mathematics Degree but just works digging up roads.
Missing the point. You can't be a "solicitor and barrister". You might switch professions from one to the other, but that is very unusual.
You can be both a solicitor and a barrister at the same time, but you’re only allowed to practise as one or the other. It’s also not that unusual anymore. Plenty of people who do the Bar exams but can’t get pupillage cross-qualify as solicitors and in recent years the BSB have also relaxed the rules for solicitors cross-qualifying into the Bar by allowing all manner of things to count in lieu of obtaining and/or exemption from some or all of a pupillage in what more or less amounts to qualification laundering. I used to run the recruitment committee at my set and my experience was that, with a couple of notable exceptions including one who we decided to take on, such candidates are almost universally hopeless, so much so that we wrote to the BSB expressing our concern that such people were debasing the coinage.
Starting the Hyper take 2: It started on the button (after 4 months laid up) - that was thursday night...sailed through the MOT this morning...fucking cold out though..!
