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Law Soc and SRA in face-off over board selection

I think the Law Society has completely missed the point here. There can be no justification for any member of the Law Society Council to play a part in the selection of the SRA Board. I can see no argument for why a representative body should have any say on who runs the regulator. The Law Society Council need to get on with the job of representing our interests and shouldn’t have any function that is related to the approved regulator role of the Law Society. The legal profession is facing constant attacks and battles from the current government. Seeking to influence the direction of the regulator is just distracting them from doing justice to the profession’s needs. At the moment I am embarrassed to be a member of the Law Society and certainly don’t feel they are representing me. The LSB seem quite clear on what they are expecting. Clearly the Law Society hasn’t accepted that the SRA needs to be truly independent from solicitors. It is worrying that people at the Law Society seem naive enough to believe that they will be allowed to carry on in this way.

18-Jun-2009

2:31 pm