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I would like to congratulate Lord Justice Jackson on another penetrating insight into the solicitors profession and his fantastic analysis that there are still profitable areas of litigation that need reform in order to ensure that these areas are brought into conformity with the already revised and loss making areas of litigation such as costs scheduling. After all, if you can't legally abolish solicitors there is only the other option of bankrupting all of the small firms. There is obviously a clear need in such cases for completely unqualified McKenzie friends to be remunerated and profitable because of their negligible training and overhead costs. This is the problem with letting barristers, whose only financial experience of costs is the monitoring of a bottle of Beaujolais at the nearest winebar and finding out whether the Clerk has brought in work and sent out their bills (and chased them up), reform the area of costs for solicitors. It's like letting a blindman paint the lines in the road.
Given the costs awarded recently to McKenzie friends, I can see a wholesale decimation of the Solicitors Roll as there is a stampede of soon to be unemployed solicitors galloping to be paid McKenzie friends.