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Hourly rate

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I attended a business development lunchtime gathering for small business owners. The guest speaker briefly referred to white van man, electricians, plumbers and the like. As self-employed individuals who desire to be earning around 35-38K he claimed they should be charging £43.60 per hour. Built into this would be the the emoluments taken for granted in many employed situations where holiday pay, sick pay and pension contributions are standard.


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    Sparkingchip:

    But presumably those prices for the services of a queens councillor includes the support staff in the office, unlike the insolvency practitioners who are charging at least ninety quid an hour for the office staff opening the post and typing letters etc. as separate itemised charges.

     




    Nope - a one day trial against 3 protesters alleged to have broken the injunction involved the council claiming £75K in costs - the one protester found guilty was ordered to pay the council £15K in costs. There is a strong suspicion that the council were deliberately inflating costs, as that would penalise injunction-breakers more. But the judge seemed mostly happy with the council's costs schedule, divided by the number of defendants. (This is Sheffield Council and the tree protesters by the way).

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    Sparkingchip:

    But presumably those prices for the services of a queens councillor includes the support staff in the office, unlike the insolvency practitioners who are charging at least ninety quid an hour for the office staff opening the post and typing letters etc. as separate itemised charges.

     




    Nope - a one day trial against 3 protesters alleged to have broken the injunction involved the council claiming £75K in costs - the one protester found guilty was ordered to pay the council £15K in costs. There is a strong suspicion that the council were deliberately inflating costs, as that would penalise injunction-breakers more. But the judge seemed mostly happy with the council's costs schedule, divided by the number of defendants. (This is Sheffield Council and the tree protesters by the way).

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