Law Society Representation Chief Executive Desmond Hudson sets out the Society's agenda for representing solicitors (see [2006] Gazette, 15 December, 8). The language he uses is depressing: 'overarching objectives', 'organisational, governance, resourcing and management structures', 'sustainable', 'viable business plans', and 'mission'.


This kind of meaningless jargon, beloved of management consultants, tells the profession all it needs to know, namely, that post-Clementi report the Law Society will probably continue to undertake expensive bureaucratic exercises that will achieve little measurable benefit and merely accelerate its alienation from those it purports to represent. If that proves to be right, then, following the separation of its regulatory and representative functions, many solicitors will doubtless look closely at the possibility of disassociating themselves from the latter.



Julian Critchlow, Fenwick Elliott, London