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This article is interesting for several reasons.

The LSG has picked up on the policy mood music coming out of the Ministry of Injustice.

There is a constant drip, drip, of policy hints which indicate, that significant change is coming to so many of the assumptions and certainties which hitherto had underpinned the practice of law for many decades.

You can see how political arguments are being prepared and refined, so that in an age of austerity, greedy lawyers are resistant to the changes which are necessary to our once revered but now technologically poorly supported justice system.

The public will be brainwashed into thinking that just like applying for your Road Tax, getting justice for many offences, getting divorced ,buying a house or obtaining Probate, will be a simple online process., regardless of the numerous problems which will be created by dumbing down matters which cannot be simplified.

In the longer term barristers especially, and solicitors perhaps to a lesser extent, face in my view an existential threat.

I am reminded in this context of the comments of a judge in a partnership case along the lines of “it’s all very well putting the law in a nutshell- it’s keeping it there!”