261. Circumstances not amounting to forced or compulsory labour.

The European Court of Human Rights has held that the following circumstances did not amount to forced or compulsory labour for the purposes of Article 4¹: a requirement that a trainee advocate provide free legal aid services in order to qualify²; a requirement that a barrister take on a legally aided case, for which he was paid a quarter of the rate for the same work done privately³; circumstances where lawyers were remunerated for working on legally aided cases but at lesser rates or under less favourable conditions⁴; an obligation that psychiatric examinations should be conducted without remuneration⁵; a