Tosco, MEAN, green but not so ■■■■■■■ clean, FFS 
Can’t see the problem with it myself.
A company as big as Stobarts is going to have a substancial legal team on the payroll.
So why not rent them out when things are quiet and they havn’t got their own ■■■■ going down?
Just good business sense.
LOL!!! Going to a haulage firm for legal advice is like going to a curry house and ordering a Chinese. If people are stupid or cheap enough to do it then they deserve to fail in court.
I don’t know.
Alex Ferguson got off driving up the hard shoulder because of a good lawyer, others have got off from speeding and even running people over and leaving the scene of the crime (Amir Khan).
I think we all want those lawyers if we’ve committed a crime
These are trained and qualified barristers though, right?
Employed by Stobarts to sort their ■■■■ out.
So presumeably Stobarts want decent barristers, not mickey mouse ones.
When their own in-house legal work goes quiet, they pimp their barristers out.
Does it follow that a Stobart barrister will give a poorer quality service than a high street barrister, because they’re employed by Stobarts?
Be interesting to see what would happen if you were ■■■■■■■ by a stobart truck then used them to prosecute on your behalf.
cieranc:
Can’t see the problem with it myself.
A company as big as Stobarts is going to have a substancial legal team on the payroll.
So why not rent them out when things are quiet and they havn’t got their own [zb] going down?Just good business sense.
Agreed, seems a good move to me. Also would like to think they’d be one of the best to go to in the event of the case being about trucking rules and regs.
Like the insurance claim that went in when one of Jenkinsons ran a Stobbie off the road on the A66 last year 
cieranc:
Like the insurance claim that went in when one of Jenkinsons ran a Stobbie off the road on the A66 last year
I imagine that both companies self insure, so there probably wouldn’t have been any claim.
As for the Barristers. I think it is a good idea. I would rather pay a Barrister who understood Transport if I was up for a Drivers offence, well rather than a General Crime Specialist. I would want one qualified in Transport Law.
FarnboroughBoy11:
LOL!!! Going to a haulage firm for legal advice is like going to a curry house and ordering a Chinese. If people are stupid or cheap enough to do it then they deserve to fail in court.
You said it mate 
papermonkey:
FarnboroughBoy11:
LOL!!! Going to a haulage firm for legal advice is like going to a curry house and ordering a Chinese. If people are stupid or cheap enough to do it then they deserve to fail in court.You said it mate
Where are the prices quoted?
We’re making an assumption that all their barristers are versed in transport law. I would imagine a company that big would have specialists in property, tax, export, contract, business law etc.
cieranc:
papermonkey:
FarnboroughBoy11:
LOL!!! Going to a haulage firm for legal advice is like going to a curry house and ordering a Chinese. If people are stupid or cheap enough to do it then they deserve to fail in court.You said it mate
Where are the prices quoted?
We’re making an assumption that all their barristers are versed in transport law. I would imagine a company that big would have specialists in property, tax, export, contract, business law etc.
It says in the link that it would be a cheaper way to go rather than a high street qualified solicitor.
If Tesco or Stobart or anyone else for that matter were doing Conveyancing for £199 compared to a traditional high street practice charging around the £500 mark only a fool would pay the higher price.
£1000 pounds to buy and sell a house is a borderline fraud.
life is like monopoly for the stobart brand.
mmmmmmm lets go to a stobart lawyer 
Criminal Bar Association saying nobody else should do their work shocker
I bet their legal eagles won’t be pushed down to £7.20ph.
People who wear suits get paid the going rate as decided by them, rather than those that hire them. If we had austerity for all, instead of just those at the bottom, the recession would be properly over by this point, instead of this “scam recovery” we’re in at the moment.
Im not sure i’d want my barrister standing before the bench dressed in green and a stobart HI-VIZ though … blimey
You would be ok if the jury was made up of stobbie spotters ! 
Derf:
Be interesting to see what would happen if you were [zb] by a stobart truck then used them to prosecute on your behalf.
They couldn’t take on the case, it would be a conflict of interest. It would be like you suing yourself for personal injury.