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There is now an entire industry of regulators and quangocrats, who are on a merry-go-round. These faceless buffoons have managed to convince the powers-that-be that lack of knowledge or experience is a virtue, so it is easy to slide from the LSB/SRA/LSCP etc to Ofwat, or the ASA or whatever.

The pernicious thing about this is that in order to prop the whole edifice up, the post-holder has to be seen to Do Something. So it is not enough that all the evidence is that solicitors' clients are disproportionately satsified with their lawyers. We must be too expensive/ too poorly trained/ too well-trained/ too underinsured/ too overinsured/ too unregulated/ too rigorously regulated, depending on what the last post-holder reckoned. And we professionals have to suck it up and accommodate these constant interferences in our private (and in many cases extremely small) businesses, which serve only to impact on our ability to do the day job.

Where on earth is the Law Society in all this? It is about time our representatives started to represent.

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