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"The real issue is the rates of pay. They are too low to sustain practice."

The 2T system was based on consolidation of the market to enable the successful bidders to survive on reduced rates. However work throughout the country has fallen off a cliff so the value of each contract in each area is not what it was. By the time this is all sorted out many firms will be out of business regardless of the outcome of the judicial review and part 7 appeal. The larger firms are more at risk than the smaller ones. They employed all those extra bodies, took out loans and geared up for being handed a contract on a plate. As a smaller firm we have no loans/mortgage or large wage bills etc.
Let's not pretend that our profession is going to strike and is anything but a paper tiger. We had numerous opportunities to fight over the years and did not do so. We just hoped that someone would do it for us. I say that as someone who did join every strike going only to find little support and none from other branches of our profession who are now in the process of being picked off one at a time.