The Law Society can’t say it lacked fair warning. The Government has been threatening to strip the society of its regulatory powers for donkey’s years. It had little choice but to act given Chancery Lane’s decidedly mixed complaints-handling record, but such incompetence reflects a deeper malaise that has crippled the organisation for the past decade.
It is a hopeless, discredited and, at times, farcical institution that sees the efforts of a professional secretariat constantly undone by an unwieldy supervisory council dominated by high street solicitors.
