If it costs more than £140 then you can tell the solicitor its not worth it unless they
are going to give you advice before signing the document.
There is a woman that I have been looking into her background and she seems to know what
she is talking about her email address is belinda.pratten(a)ncvo-vol.org.uk <
belinda.pratten(a)ncvo-vol.org.uk> and the website that she is on is
which has a section on charity law
with different sections leading off.
Chris
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:01:43 +0100
From: thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Solicitors - Request for recommendations
2008/9/18 Chris Wood <hot20024(a)hotmail.com>om>:
They usually charge you for their services. Some
charge upto £25 for
answering your question over the phone but most solicitors are legally
binded to give you 30 minutes free legal advice before they charge you. My
nans friend is a solicitor and he says that they charge for things such as
answering the telephone and also writing letters and responding to letters
and be glad your not hiring a barrister as they charge a minimum of £95 an
hour.
We're looking for advice (desirable, but not essential) and someone to
sign off on the application (a legal requirement). The former we may
be able to get for free (as you say, you can usually get 30 minutes
free advice, although I don't know if that applies to corporate
matters), the latter I would expect we need to pay for whoever we get
(it involves writing something down - I believe that almost always
results in a fee). Since we need someone to sign the application, we
may as well try and make it someone that can offer useful advice as
well. Also, we're likely to require legal advice at some point in the
future (WM DE have been sued what, 4 times so far? And that's just
issues that have actually gone to court), so it would be good to have
a professional to turn to and not need to find one in a hurry.
We can afford reasonable set up costs, the board can fund them out of
their own pockets and get reimbursed out of the first membership fees.
We have 28 people interested in being supporting members. Assuming
half of them actually sign up and a membership fee of £10 (both
conservative estimates), that's £140 straight off. I think the
application itself costs £30, that leaves £110 to pay a solicitor -
hopefully there will even be something left over for travel expenses
(I'm just guessing what they're likely to charge - none of their
websites seem to include minor details like costs...). I'm happy to
sub the chapter £140 for the few months it will take to get the fees
in.
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