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Since this thread has moved away from the factual question that was originally asked, let’s move this to IMHO (from FQ).
Also, unser English law, anyone who’s been arrested is, no matter his or her financial situation, allowed free legal advice by a solicitor at the police station. I wonder if he avails himself of this option or has a law firm in retainer.
The family traditionally use Farrer’s, but depending on where he’s been held, I suppose the local duty solicitor might have been on hand at least until whoever could get there.
From Wikipedia:
The firm was started in 1701 by Tempest Slinger and his nephew, also named Tempest Slinger.
What are the odds?
Sounds like a fearsome weapon of war. Or some grandiose military operation.
Pretty sure “Tempest Slinger” is a Eldar unit in Warhammer 40K.
“We need more ‘Tempest Slinger’ license plates in the gift shop!”
“The family” seems to be pretty thoroughly disowning Andrew and all his works.
Such that Farrer might have to choose between representing Andrew and continuing to receive business from the family.
As well, given King Charles recent public statement, they’re going to want a pretty solid firewall between his legal team and anything connected to their own. As a practical matter, a firm like Farrer is more than capable of having such a firewall. But the pubic impression is more important than the private reality.
My bottom line:
I bet he finds somebody else to represent him. And on top of all the above, probably also partly for reasons of cost.
Does Farrer even do criminal law?
He should have gone to Dubai when he had the chance.
It doesn’t seem like it based on their website, but I don’t know how British firms operate. maybe they would associate with a criminal solicitor.
I wonder if he’s an ancestor of Stormy Daniels.
Funny 30 second video:
At least now he won’t have to worry about a place to live.
One assumes you mean a solicitor who handles criminal cases, rather than a solicitor who is a criminal, but one is not certain.
eta: I confess to a certain amount of shady schadenfreude here, since I always find myself resentful of unearned status based on who one’s family is. I’m not proud of it, but there it is; and I’m glad that the family have been serially cutting him loose from his inherited privilege.
Is Andrew still “a senior member of the royal family”? They maybe can’t remove him from the family entirely, but is sure seems to me that he’s no longer “senior”.
I mean, whatever his official standing is he’s the king’s younger brother and was once the ‘spare to the heir’ - second in line to the throne for 22 years. I’d still call him a “senior member of the royal family,” even if a now disgraced and disinherited one.
Don’t sweat it, I’ve always hated aristocracy and how they still profit from assets their ancestors stole, and exploited the common people to increase their riches. If I had a say in it, all families of nobility would have to be expropriated by the state(s) of all their estates and all the other stuff their ancestors stole.
Sometimes you need a criminal solicitor and sometimes you need a criminal solicitor…
Off topic, but when I read a Nancy Drew mystery book in like third grade I was very confused that Nancy was a detective while her father Carson was a criminal lawyer–I assumed of course criminal AND lawyer but that was never developed in the book. It was confusing.
I guess it’s ambiguous in the original English too.