Commoditised legal services are once more in the news. This time it’s not just Richard Susskind who is to blame, with the Lord Chancellor’s Department (LCD) now effectively assuming the mantle of the UK’s top advocate of pre-packaged online “virtual” legal services.
If you were to read the latest Court Service consultation paper, ‘Modernising the Civil Courts’, you might think it will only be a matter of weeks before you can pop round to Tesco for a couple of pounds of sprouts and a quickie divorce.
