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It's obviously the non-competitive nature of the market and the decline in standards of advocacy which has caused the fall in numbers.

The Briggs proposal to cut out lawyers in claims under £25,000 will eliminate complaints altogether since the corporate clients can't use the system.

You can see the strategy. Save the profession money by eliminating its workload in its entirety on the grounds that it's a cartel populated by useless people so we don't need it. Then there won't need to be an LeO or an SRA.

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." I think that's the top line of government policy, seemingly endorsed by some members of the judiciary.