The Gazette 1991

GAZETTE

DECEMBER 1991

(Vi ewpo i nt Con t ' d) quate safeguards to protect clients against any possibility of exploita- tion. Against that background, one would, naturally, have expected the Solicitors (Amendment) Bill to have contained a provision removing all statutory controls on solicitors remuneration. Alas, such is not the case. The legal controls remain. We wou ld simply say to the Government that they cannot have it both ways. It is, in our view, completely inconsistent w i th any reasonable notion of competition to maintain a framework of legal con- trol on the charges that solicitors make for certain legal services in a context in which there is to be free and open competition in the pro- vision of legal services; all the more so in a situation where there is an infrastructure, including a Legal Ombudsman, to deal w i th com- plaints about overcharging. We would ask the Government to think again. •

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