I think I’m a pretty representative case when I look at what promises to be a year dominated by the Legal Services Act (LSA) and conclude that the profession has now well and truly reached a point of regulatory overload.

Take one prominent example: the recently-launched, horribly-complicated and wide-reaching review of legal education. On the launch of the initiative many said it was long overdue. Well, start digging into the process as we do for this week’s analysis, and another view starts to emerge.