It’s funny how often rules governing lawyers that are ostensibly designed to uphold the legal profession’s core values also happen to uphold lawyers’ pay packets.
Thus the Bar Council fought the Government’s efforts to open up the higher courts to solicitor-advocates on public interest grounds, when hindsight shows that if anything has suffered it is barristers’ earnings. And the Law Society is currently dragging its feet over the Office of Fair Trading’s calls for the likes of Tesco to be allowed to offer customers legal services.
