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RIP the LS. Exactly what I said was going to happen.

The LS should have acted like a Union all the way along instead of a rich boys club as they have in my opinion. Now not only have careers in PI and Criminal been destroyed, and Conveyancing fees been reduced to ridiculous levels where many omit searches and take risks to save money, but the fact that the government can do anything it wants to all intents and purposes unopposed, now means the LS's very existence is under threat.

Who's going to pay fees to remain a part of a representative body that fails to prevent harmful changes? Not many I'd predict. Until Lawyers and the LS realise that the only way to oppose cuts in this day and age is direct action and on the street protests, they will continue to be trampled on. Merely stopping the changes now is not enough, we need a total reversal away from fixed fees for PI and Criminal, Hourly Court rates of £500 p/h not unrealistic levels, and Conveyancing done for a legal minimum percentage of the house price, much like estate agents practice, although here a minimum is necessary to prevent dangerous short cuts being taken and maintain standards eg 2% of the purchase price. We also need to remove legal administrators and paralegals from the profession and get back to using Solicitors and University qualified Cilex alone to ensure we maintain standards. (Nothing here to stop existing paralegals going back to University to sit Cilex). Quick entry to the profession and computer guided advising, doesn't equal quality in my opinion.

The LS needs to realise as well, the old gentlemanly way of Jeeves making polite representations to the PM in some back office and the PM accepting those recommendations is now back in the Victorian era.

It appears the PM wants the profession dead, not least in my opinion probably because too many working class people are now employed in it. I personally think that's the motive not costs. The easiest way to kill social mobility and discriminate silently, is to force down wages to prevent social climbing.

RIP the LS and Social Mobility. The headstones going to read "We brought it upon ourselves..."