Following the publication of the report of the joint committee on the draft Legal Services Bill, much has been made in the press of the way the report ‘hits out’ at the Government because of the way in which the Bill diverts from the original recommendations of Sir David Clementi in the Regulatory Review of Legal Services.
What has not, thus far, been commented on is the way in which the committee report also flies in the face of much of what Clementi recommended. This is most apparent in chapter five of the report – Alternative Business Structures.
