The Law Society has told Lord Hunt’s independent review of legal regulation that the Solicitors Regulation Authority ‘lacks the sufficient skills, understanding and flexibility to effectively regulate all parts of the profession’.

Legal education has also come under fire as ‘divorced from legal practice in a way that is damaging to the profession’ whilst the SRA exercises ‘very little control’ over university education, with the result that the quality of degrees varies ‘enormously’, and leads to employers judging candidates on the quality of their universities rather than their degree results.

Hunt is scheduled to provide an initial response to submissions in the next few weeks.

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