Law Society Council representatives are to put their heads on the block to decide the future size of the body. After more than a year of investigations into the structure of the Council, a vote will be taken at next week’s Council meeting.

A consultation found there is a ‘clear steer for a significantly smaller council’. The council has 100 seats, 61 of which are geographical and 39 non-geographical. The options are to cut the council to 75 representatives, 85 or no change.

A decision for 75 representatives would see the council revert to its 2001 make-up, with cuts from non-geographical seats.

Chris Clark, Wolverhampton and Staffordshire representative, said that the ‘general consensus’ is for prominence to be given to geographical seats.

However Maria Memoli, Solicitors in Local Government representative, said that non-geographical seats had an important role. ‘Otherwise we will all be swallowed up by regional law societies,’ she warned.