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Focus: The law society: Chancery lame

As a former, nationally-elected Member of the Council of the Law Society, who was therefore in an enviable position to observe Chancery Lane in action, I would say, it is quite impossible to hate him, so it has to be the other thing. The plain fact is that the Profession, consists of two unequal halves: the City and other mega-firms on the one hand, and the rest. Whatever the former may say to the contrary, their power and organisational strength means, that it is they who call the shots, - and they know it. At a time when unprecedent challenges rain down upon the profession, few could hand-on-heart deny that Hudson has striven to do his best for all. It ill-behoves those in the City, which unlike the rest of the profession continues to enjoy eye-watering rewards out of the laissez-faire financial policies of the last Government, which simultaneously whacked the rest of us at every available opportunity, - to suggest otherwise.

6-Dec-2010

11:21 am