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There is a curious obsession with competition, both by the legal services regulators and the competition watchdog, driven by the shortcomings of the Legal Services Act, and a misunderstanding by civil servants, of the importance of an independent legal profession, and a well-funded legal system, to the workings of the Rule of Law.
Its suits politicians, but damages our own democracy, to slowly emasculate the legal profession in all its branches, since the influence the Law Society once held, has been slowly eroded, by a toxic mix of appeasement and indifference to the cries for help from its own hard pressed members.
This is why solicitors have formed their own groups to campaign and fight on their behalf, such as Access to Justice.
The steady decline in the profession’s reputation and status could be arrested, but only if there was a quite remarkable change in governance and policy on the part of the Law Society.
The tragedy is that it doesn’t have to be this way.
If only anybody at Chancery Lane was really listening.

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