Europe's biggest watchdog, gatherer of information and campaigner? These reports add real "meat" to the history page... enough to convince any doubters... Perhaps, most of all, they illustrate just how hard the legal profession and the Law Society has resisted pressure for decades despite the might of Which? and numerous other champions, activists and campaigners.
Where other BIG institutions have been brought into line, it seems the legal profession and the Law Society are just too powerful (too corrupt?) to bow to any pressure? Still, big change is wrought by little actions... "Every Little Helps" said the ant pissing into the sea at midday. Englishmen won't lie down it seems...
Which? issues 2001 Press Release
Which? issues 2004 Press Release
Which? issues 2005 Press Release
Which? issues 2006 Press Release
Which? Legal Services Reform consultation response 2006
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Some Sound Advice on Choosing & Using a Solicitor...
September 2004
Updated: October, 2008
When choosing a solicitor, or if trying to choose a solicitor, many institutions suggest that recommendation is the best route. This is highly questionable for the referrer could so easily be a criminal with a hidden agenda, and the recommended solicitor could be a knowing component in fraudulent or criminal schemes. You MUST take all possible precautions to establish the credentials of the solicitor you are thinking of using, and those of the referrer.
Solicitors and criminals rely upon your ignorance or your failure to ask the right questions in order to implement their schemes against you. They will especially rely upon your faith in and respect for them as members of an honourable profession. The unfortunate reality in Britain is that most of its serious criminals wear suits, and that lawyers comprise a very large number of them.
