{"id":827,"date":"2020-06-17T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrishegarty.com\/?page_id=827"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:54:18","slug":"direct-access-barrister","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/?page_id=827","title":{"rendered":"What is a Direct Access Barrister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Direct Access barristers can accept instructions directly from you or your business, including for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Early advice about a legal issue<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A second opinion on a legal issue<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drafting legal documents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To arrange a consultation just or contact me directly on <a href=\"mailto:chris@chrishegarty.com\">chris@chrishegarty.com<\/a> or choose \u201cCall me back\u201d on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See my guide to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrishegarty.com\/?page_id=594\">how to instruct me<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrishegarty.com\/?page_id=596\">briefing counsel \u2013 how to get the best out of a barrister<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct Access barristers can accept instructions directly from you or your business, including for: To arrange a consultation just or contact me directly on chris@chrishegarty.com or choose \u201cCall me back\u201d on the right. See my guide to\u00a0how to instruct me\u00a0and\u00a0briefing counsel \u2013 how to get the best out of a barrister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-827","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/827\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrishegarty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}