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There's no reason to suspect any threat to our independent legal profession, Mr Louw. The government quite legitimately raised concerns with the SRA about Leigh Day's conduct. These were properly taken up by the SRA, considered by the Tribunal, and rejected. Why may not a government department, like any other defendant, report possible professional misconduct by its opponent's solicitors? How does that amount to "denouncing solicitors" or "dictating to the SRA"? Where is the evidence of any improper pressure? Harman "demanded to know the content of e-mails sent from government departments to the SRA" yet described that content as "wholly inappropriate and designed and perceived to subject the SRA to pressure". So she knows that what they said was "inappropriate" without actually knowing what they said. That hardly seems a model of judicial fair-mindedness.

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