ABSTRACT
Effective teamwork with the advocate is the key to good preparation of the client’s defence. It is important that you understand your responsibilities as case manager, as compared to those of the advocate, particularly when counsel is used. If advice by the advocate is not properly recorded or points are not followed up adequately, the client’s defence will suffer. Reference to counsel’s clerk was briefly made in 3.1.5 above. All arrangements for appointments for conferences and briefs to appear in court are made through the clerk or clerks in the set of chambers to which the barrister belongs. If the matter is privately paid rather than funded by legal aid, it is the clerk with whom you negotiate the brief fee.
