Instead, the benchers have created a
system that will
dump hordes of new lawyers onto the public in the post-call period despite, thanks to the American Petri dish next door, the clear evidence that having far too many lawyers per capita produces an increasingly costly and dysfunctional
legal system.
Ken, please keep fighting for improvements to the
system, but please do not make the mistake of believing that all
legal services are unaffordable when that is simply not the case, or the mistake of thinking that small firm solicitor work is a commodity that can be
dumped in the lap of some corporate behemoth, or the mistake of thinking that the Law Society has all the powers necessary to magically fix everything.