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So here we have the perfect illustration of the woes of the modern legal profession.
The SRA, the body that supervises solicitors, decides that it is appropriate to engage in what looks like gratuitous solicitor bashing. Seeking out "perceptions" is not a useful activity.
The Law Society has again decided that the qualification of being a solicitor is of no value, but that practitioners must but an additional "Quality Mark" to show that they are half competent.
The spectre of referral fees again appears. I will continue to assert that ALL referral fees (in every walk of life) are bribes and should not only be banned, but seen as criminal. My usual comparison is to the medical profession. Who would like to be referred by their GP to a specialist on the basis of the payment the GP was getting in return for the referral?
Then there is the issue of a fair level of fees (as true in criminal work as other legal fields ). The criminal practitioners have to work hard, with difficult clients for precious little remuneration, and in return for their hard work they receive nothing but criticism from HMG and others.
It makes me weep.

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