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What has occurred since the Woolf reforms is a national scandal – only the public isn’t aware of it – yet. What is needed is the right media exposure. Instead of making legal services less expensive, these constant changes to the legal system have been an absolute shambles (the system actually performed better 20 years ago than it does now). The politicians turned the reform process from the mid 1990s onwards into a free-for-all. What is needed is for the Sunday Times or another national newspaper to do an in-depth study of how disastrous the entire charade has been, from Woolf to Clement to Jackson – and to show how these constant changes have actually made the legal system more expensive and less accessible for the public (not the reverse as claimed) and how they have decimated the profession – for solicitors and barristers. The public has the same view of lawyers as Dickens had in Bleak House but there is another side to the story which has been shouted down – because the public now associates solicitors with CMCs, daytime television advertising, £1K per hour fees etc. So far, the change process has been imposed from above without reference to the profession which is told to accept the new status quo or get out. The scandal should be exposed to the light of day. If anyone reading this post knows someone from the fourth estate who is looking for an expose series, then there are many well-versed writers contributing posts to the Gazette who can assist with the process. So far, the profession has remained silent. Now it must be heard – and the message must be to the government : reverse the reforms.