Marcus Farrar Chivers Solicitors Bingley Airedale Terriers and beefburgers, Peter Chester cars LINGsCARS Audi VW Golf Astra prisoner lawyer
Posted on | August 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Being famous is a double sided knife. Marcus Farrar is one of Ling Valentine’s best customer. He is also a high-flying lawyer.
Based at Chivers Solicitors in Bingley (a Yorkshire market town famous for Airedale Terriers and beefburgers), Marcus turns opposition solicitors’ legs to jelly when they know he is on the case.
Marcus has acted for many high-profile clients, includingÂ
, a convicted child rapist and killer who is challenging the law banning prisoners from voting in elections.
Farrar relishes these challenges and says, “My feeling is that convicted prisoners are a vulnerable group, often alone and with the might of the state ranged against them. It is important they are given access to lawyers to ensure their rights are protected”.
The Ministry of Justice said the second stage of a public consultation on prisoner voting is currently under way ahead of the Government’s response to the European Court of Human Rights ruling.
Ling Valentine, who runs LINGsCARS, the UK’s favourite car leasing website, says Farrar, 34, is one of her very best customers. She says “Dealing with Marcus is as entertaining as dealing with Ally McBeal. His firm, Chivers Solicitors, where he is Consultant Solicitor specialises in difficult criminal cases. I am proud to supply this maverick leagle eagle with cars. He’s had loads of new cars from me over the past few years.”
“He lives life on the edge, eschewing my high-security LINGO system in favour of plain email, and Marcus enjoys giving me waste-pipe plumbing advice, having once unblocked a drain as a trainee solicitor.”
Cars the Yorkshire-based solicitor has taken from Ling include two Golfs, two Audi A3s, a BMW 3-series, a Clio and an Astra.
Ling says she once got a letter from Farrar that consisted of more than one sentence. “Usually it is five words maximum from Marcus. However on one occasion there were two sentences, a comma and three full stops.”



















