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The SRA makes numerous demands and introduces various practice changes which are all designed to make the cost of legal services less expensive for the consumer / client - and yet, in any disciplinary proceedings, its own legal costs are through the roof. Why is it unable to bring those costs under control or reduce them substantially or minimise them ? If it finds it impossible to reduce its own legal costs, then how can it seriously demand that the profession should do so in the normal course of business ? And if these substantial costs orders (as in the Leigh Day case £10M+) are to continue, isn't it time that the SRA / LSB / MOJ et al considered simplifying the SDT procedure so that in simple, straightforward cases, it becomes less like the Spanish Inquisition and more like an administrative process.