Nothing In Common
I am a legal aid practitioner specialising in mental health law and I am wading through the new 100-page contract that is about to be unilaterally imposed on us by the Legal Services Commission.
I note that the commission has paid Eversheds for advice as to the reasonableness or otherwise of this contract. It is no surprise that Eversheds' view is that the contract is reasonable. The fact that Eversheds is acting against the interests of legal aid practitioners is yet another argument that the representative arm of the Law Society should be split further so that large commercial firms are separated from legal aid firms, because clearly we have nothing in common.
Ann Mear, Ann Mear & Co, Barnsley
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