The Gazette 1987

GAZETTE

SEPTEMBER 1987

(11) The issue of licences will re- main under the control of the pro- fession with very high standards of examination and pupillage. (12) The consumer must re- cognise that he cannot have his cake and eat it. Regulation and competition are irreconcilable. The recent dispute between the Office of Fair Trading and the Securities and Investment Board in the United Kingdom has made this plain, if it was not obvious before. Concen- tration upon the high calibre of en- try into the profession, that is to say those licensed to practise law, allows greater liberalisation of regulation. The above propositions in the conclusion are put forward as a basis for discussion and with no pre-conceived notion that they are a cure for all ills. It must be said, however, that failure on the part of the profession to recognise the de- mand for commercialisation and on the part of the consumer to accept the risks of less regulation will lower the quality of the lawyer and destroy professionalism. By its nature, a high degree of commer- cialisation produces a high quality product. That is what the consumer wants and he will reward the lawyer accordingly. • * David Biart is Co-Chairman of Committee 10 (Professional Dev- elopment and Technology) of the International Bar Association's Section on General Practice. This article was first presented as a paper at the SGP's 4th Biennial Conference, Montreaux, June 1987, at a Session of Committee 10. It was published in the September, 1987 issue of the International Legal Practitioner, and is reprinted with kind permission of the author and publisher.

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