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"...The work was generally low skill, and mostly done by unqualified people, and was remunerated at ridiculously high rates for what was actually involved – the equivalent of City rates for work that was done by kids with one GCSE.

It's a scandal that this situation was as allowed to continue for as long as it did. It led to hundreds of dodgy firms being set up to cash in on what were largely fraudulent - or at least grossly exaggerated - claims. .."

I think I would agree. The Law Society (and latterly SRA), have a lot to answer for here. Particularly the spiralling into a greedfest of overadvertising. ...