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Most employed high street solicitors are earning teacher salaries. The gap between those incomes and legal fees is a genuine issue the profession hasn't addressed. We are pricing out huge numbers of potential clients.

There is no political will to dismantle even the most innocuous and pointless part of the web of regulation from across government departments, from regulators, that create a share of the costs we face.

We have to work with what we have. The clerk factory model made sense in the 1990s, it doesn't now. Software as a Service (SaaS) highly automated mobile cloud hosted case management integrated with automated accounts does away with the clerks, the support services, the functions of the equity partners, and the need for an office to be anything other than a PO Box with a reception/post room. Our future is the chambers model, tried and tested by the Bar.

It will take time to change. They'll be no leadership from the LS or MoJ. We have to make this happen. The sooner we start, the better for us, our future clients, and justice.