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Hi there. My person was a guilty plea. Solicitor for plea hearing. Then they instructed barrister for sentencing at crown court. He paid £3000 maybe a little more. Hope this is helpful x

Hi, my persons case was all kept at magistrates court. For plea and sentencing it cost a little over £1200. He didnt need a barrister. He was also charged £85 + £114 court costs. Hope this helps

We paid close to £10k as we ended in crown court with barrister.
It was a ridiculous amount of money, but absolutely worth it for the outcome we got.

We are just about to go to plea and paid over £7000 just for precharge stuff including 2 more interviews. We knew it was dreadfully expensive but were so stressed by the police officer's behaviour (seems so silly of us now but at the time.......) and we wanted to have a spokesperson to be a middle person for the investigation to spare our stress a bit. We had no idea of costs generally and probably should have done some research.

We are now tightening our belts ready for the next amount which will be more expense but we decided it was far better to think in hindsight that we could have managed without than regretting not instructing one. We are using most of our savings to help our son but we are very grateful that we have those savings to start with as I know many others don't but also earn too much for legal aid. I suspect we chose an expensive firm but how on earth do you know!!

Must add that from some other posts on the forum there have been others who have paid far less than us and been happy with the help and advice they received.