I have just finished reading about David Beckham getting away {Scot free} with a speeding fine after being caught doing 59 in a 40 zone.
Apparently not for the first time either, he got away with something similar in 1999 as well.
This time apparently the summons was sent to the garage that owned the car {Beckham had hired it} so by the time Beckham received the summons it had arrived a day late {over the statutory 14 day window} and so his smarmy lawyer had the case thrown out.
Now the reason for the post title is because it appears "Celebs" would obviously sooner pay an arm and a leg to lawyers than admit any wrongdoing, but in Beckham's case it was open and shut, he was caught speeding, he ADMITTED to speeding yet call it vanity or whatever he would rather pay for a lawyer to get him off than pay the fine {and possibly a few points on his licence}
If he had left the lawyer out of it and just paid the fine firstly, the fine would have been a damn sight less than the lawyers fees and secondly, the money would have been put to good use rather than lining the pockets of a lawyer.
The stupidity of this is had he lost which was a 90% certainty he would have still had to pay the fine, his lawyers fees AND court costs all for trying to save a couple of hundred quid it beggars belief.