Where is the Certificate from the NSW Bar?

It seems there are a few people practising law on there without the appropriate paperwork....hmmm.

Agog/Michael/Sisyphus admits:

"Many people join SRL-R with an expectation we are going to do 100% for them and are often not prepared to help themselves. Some people give us highly selective versions of their cases and waste much of our time 'pulling teeth'. If they were paying a solicitor $300-400 an hour would they do the same?D4L has made a number of postings about 'paying it forward' and trying to help yourself. You might be very surprised at how many people expect 20, 30 40 or more than a hundred hours of time and seem unable to grasp that the time and other out of pocket expenses has to come from somewhere. In terms of reciprocation and donations it has always been a 'hot' internal topic amongst the SRL-R people. You will note I use the term 'reciprocation' and I use it in the sense that you do not have to know anything or very much about Family Law to help us, there are many ancillary tasks that can be performed to make the SRL-R Execs time at the coalface more efficient. "

Then OneringRules/SSPCA/Wayne offers this confirmation in the same thread:

"The donations are received by FLWG. Funds are used for any worthy cause applied for on a case by case basis from any member group. To date there has not been a significant amount and any funds have been used in the development center to fund bandwidth and external developer resources. The site developers can give you more info if required. "



Does this mean you are all expecting some sort of compensation in exchange for legal advice? I hope not because as SRL's you would all know that that is against the law.