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I thought I would never see the day that the calibre of our regulators became so poor, that the pursuit of pure competition, would become a fundamental regulatory objective in its own right.

Higher "gold plated" standards have become, in this parallel universe anti-competitive, to be criticised by a "super" regulator regulating other legal service regulators.

The core inconsistencies of the troubled Legal Services Act have finally found their lowest expression, distilled in an absurd form utterly at odds with common sense