The Law Society was in top form once again last week, swinging into action to respond decisively to the Government’s new legislative programme, of which the Legal Services Bill is a key plank. Not that the Bill got much of a mention from Her Maj, of course.
So decisive was the body’s reaction that it issued two separate statements from opposite ends of its press office – one from regulatory chair Peter Williamson and another from Law Society tsarina Fiona Woolf. Impressive stuff… or it would have been, if only the two had compared notes beforehand.
