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‘Title acts at the moment as a barrier to sustainable entry to many parts of the market for legal services because a prospective market entrant without the title in question may find it difficult to gain market share.’

In the short term, the LSB said this should be left to the regulator, with concerns that giving responsibility to representative bodies could result in ‘gold-plating of entry standards’.

Is a surgeon needed to take out appendixes?
No - consumers would rather have the bloke down the pub with his correspondence course degree. After all, no sense in 'gold plating' entry standards....