The Law Society is facing renewed pressure to split into two and give up self-regulation following a year-long review into its structure that has slammed the body for its disputes about “territory”.
A report by the First Civil Service Commissioner, Baroness Prashar, has called for the society’s council to be replaced by a small body dealing with representation and law reform, with an appointed board to handle regulation. “Externally, the combination of [regulatory and representative] functions calls into question the society’s credibility for retaining a regulatory function,” said Prashar, who presented her report to the council last week (12 May).
