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This drive to make legal representation accessible only to the wealthy, yet determine that the untrained and unrepresented should have the same knowledge of the (many impenetrable) rules, is an ignorant and ham-fisted attempt to somehow make solicitors elite, and drive clients to have to use them.

All it will do however, is drive a greater wedge between public and the legal sector, more people dispense with solicitors by use of 'alternatives' or abandoning claims, with the resultant decline in solicitors receiving instructions, fees, and ultimately practice.