HODGE/AUCOTT FOR:-- Guideline fees for conveyancing.-- Practice management standards and an accreditation scheme backed by a support programme.-- Providing subsidised help on practice management, networking, mergers and information technology.-- Resisting changes to legal aid harmful to clients and solicitors.-- A 10% reduction in the practising certificate fee within 12 months.-- No claims indemnity bonuses with risk banding and penalty deductibles for those with bad claims records.-- Enforcing a new c ost-conscious service culture at Chancery Lane.-- Turning the Solicitors Complaints Bureau into an agency of the Society, changing its name and targeting firms with a poor complaints record for attention.-- Consultation on abolition of the minimum salary.-- More regional offices tailored to meet local need paid for by savings in central budgets.-- Promoting international practice and the City's contribution to invisible earnings.-- Audience rights for employed lawyers.AGAINST:-- Separate representation in conveyancing.-- Excessive regulation.-- Any form of discrimination: they supported the Society's anti-discrimination rule.MEARS/SAYER FOR:-- Tackling the over-supply within the profession by cutting the numbers admitted to the legal practice course to 1000 annually.-- Imposing a levy of £50 to £100 on conveyancing clients in a bid to reduce the cost of indemnity insurance by at least 30%.-- Resisting any proposal to confine legal aid to franchisees and leading the campaign to eliminate abuses.-- Spreading the message within the profession that price cutting in conveyancing leads to ruin.-- Reducing the number of Chancery Lane staff by natural wastage.-- Bringing the Solicitors Complaints Bureau back under the wing of the Law Society and establishing an independent tribunal to hear appeals.-- The establishing of a working party to tackle the problem of the profession's poor public image.-- Referenda on issues to overcome Council opposition to their reform plans.AGAINST:-- Separate representation in conveyancing.-- Excessive regulation.-- An overly powerful bureaucracy.

Promise to ensure the bureaucracy is made accountable 'in practice as well as in theory' to the profession's representatives.-- Discrimination, but also against a system of employment targets for ethnic minorities.-- The establishment of more regional offices.-- Practice management standards and kitemarks.PEMBRIDGE FOR:-- Specialisation and quality marks with help for solicitors on how to achieve purpose-built accreditation procedures under the Society's control.-- Increasing the role of women and the ethnic minorities within the profession and on the Law Society's Council.-- Defending solicitors against unreasonable demands by bulk purchasers of legal services.-- Rectifying the image of 'fat cat' lawyers as held by the public and portrayed by the press.--Discounted insurance premiums for firms with specialist accreditation.-- Separate representation in principle, but in the medium term believes the way forward is the negotiation of a limited retainer with lenders, backed up by a practice rule.-- Audience rights for employed lawyers.-- Charging complainants to the Solicitors Complaints Bureau a fee, refundable if the complaint is substantiated.-- Retaining the minimum salary.-- A review of Chancery Lane's budget to see where savings may be made.-- Promoting the needs of managing partners of leading City and provincial commercial firms.AGAINST:-- Excessive regulation.-- The existing system of elections to the Council because it perpetuates the election of those who are 'clubbable'.