Should lawyers choose clients that match their own beliefs? They should not, says John Gould, senior partner at Russell-Cooke, in this week’s NLJ.
He refers to the furore around David Perry QC accepting work from the Hong Kong Department of Justice earlier this year. Perry later bowed out. But what about the cab rank rule? And a lawyer’s independence from their client?
Gould writes: ‘Barristers are “hired guns”. It is not necessary (or even desirable) that they express anything but the position of their clients. They argue and represent others for money. They are not soldiers in their own country’s cause.’
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