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It is a matter of the utmost concern to me, as a harassed, hardworking but still committed solicitor, working tirelessly at the coal face of legal services, that the Law Society appears to be complicit in the profession’s own decline!

We had the Legal Services Act, which despite the concerns of many, was duly passed into law, and thereby in effect corrupted the ethical core at the heart of what it is to be a lawyer.

Now following countless attacks on the many different aspects of how solicitors practise, we now have a further attack, this time in terms of changing the matrix of law, so that solicitors will with the passage of time increasingly wander round the ruined landscape of UK legal services, like battered survivors of some post-deregulation apocalypse.

As somebody has already commented, we don’t enhance the standing of solicitors by changing the whole legal landscape, so that everybody in the law just sells rather than practises law.