The Law Society Council is under pressure from its own regulatory working party to lift a fee-sharing ban with non-solicitors, according to the Office of Fair Trading.
In the OFT’s 12-month progress statement on its 2001 report into competition in the professions it found the Law Society was seriously divided on multi-disciplinary partnerships (MDPs) – with the regulation review working party leading the call for liberalisation.
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