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I join the other comments made on this. This is just ever more dumbing down which always brings disaster: just look at the freeing up of the City which led to the economic crash of 2008 or have we forgotten about that? I have been in the profession for many years and over those years the number of solicitors struck has increased many-fold. Usually they are struck off for financial offences. This is also not a way to reduce fees and why should we anyway? No other profession has. Reducing fees does not increase choice and it decreases the quality of the advisors and therefore, the quality of the assistance given.

We should also have proper meaningful Rules again: they worked well in the past. OFR only makes compliance subjective and anyone claiming will always have a different view. Lawyers carry much more responsibility than other professions, often the results of third party actions over which the lawyer had no control.

We need to rebuild the legal profession back into a profession which was respected for its social worth, not a bunch of people only fit for a kicking all the time.