It is sad that the training framework review group seems to want the profession to be swept away by the strong and populist dumbing-down current which is ploughing its destructive course through our national life (see [2005] Gazette, 20 January, 3).


Low standards are magically respun as high achievements in the looking-glass world we are all now forced to inhabit.


If the Law Society abandons the concept of a testing professional examination to ensure the high legal quality of those seeking to enter the profession, it is effectively beginning the deprofessionalisation of the solicitors' profession.



Nicholas Dobson, Leeds



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