I am told that the new SRA Handbook is over 500 pages. To quote from the Solicitors Handbook 2011 (p32): ‘The introduction of OFR will give a simplified rulebook and freedom to practise innovatively.’ My Law Society looseleaf quotes that The Professional Conduct of Solicitors from 1986, including all the appendices, was only 318 pages. Need I say more?
Peter Mason-Apps, Mason-Apps Smallmans & Co, Maidenhead
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