As reported in the Law Society Gazette, the President of the UK's Law Society told a gathering in Oxford that he expects the centuries-old English distinctions in the legal profession between barristers and solicitors will "whither away" as a result of recent sweeping changes in the UK laws regulating the profession.
It is ‘inevitable’ the professions will ‘need to revisit the question whether [they] should continue to be separately trained, represented and regulated. I envisage the time coming when the distinction will be more a decorative than a functional aspect of our legal constitution.
Art: Vanity Fair, 1870, Sir Robert P. COLLIER : Barrister.
