Jonathan Mitchel QC brings us news that Instruct Us Now Ltd are not flavour of the month with the Faculty of Advocates.

His blog entry “Instruct Us Now Ltd” Faculty ban on instructions includes the comment “It is not wholly clear, at least to me, what the point of instructing counsel via an unqualified intermediary might be … Unless anyone can explain otherwise, it seems obvious that somebody has to pay for the additional middleman, and ultimately that will be the client.”

That’s them told, then!