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@Peter Ryder26 February 2016 03:38 pm:

".... The report doesn’t make enough of the most important question, which is how can we extend access to justice to more of the poor and less well off. Solicitors and barristers through no fault of their own (at least on the High Street) are simply too expensive...."

I think the CPS can field case workers into the Magistrates Court but we Solicitors can't.

The solution surely has to be there, to allow us to allow Trainees in and to conduct lower seriousness trials but that would be a hot potato for the Bar who rely on allowing their Pupils to go to the Mags.

The only solution is fusion, common Solicitor entry, and a College of Advocacy (strangely known as the Bar with Inns of Court), as a specialism later on.

That would provide the cheaper labour earlier on.