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The need to be professional and promote professionalism as a public good, has never been more important than it is now.

There appears to be on the part of the Government a systematic, but ill informed dismantling of the institutions and mechanisms, which have carefully evolved in this country over the centuries, to provide justice to its citizens both civil and criminal.

Solicitors increase the "trust quotient" of society as evidenced for instance by their huge contribution towards UK invisible earnings. Therefore the continual interference with, and the heavy regulation of, solicitors are misconceived, and represent an unacceptable intrusion on the independence of the profession.It is well understood elsewhere around the world, that justice is at the core of human development, and access to an independent legal profession is enshrined in the UN Charter.

I would hope therefore that following its defeat at the SGM, and having regard to its founding principles as enshrined in its Charters, the Law Society will appreciate, that its past strategies have resulted in a diminution of the standing of the profession with the public at large.

The Law Society should now support access to justice in a more robust way, by moving from the sidelines and endorsing the new group, the announcement of which has provided a well needed boost to solicitors abused by successive governments in recent years.

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