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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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