Summary
Your front-page article by Paul Rogerson on May 18 about complaints against lawyers perpetuates a popular misconception. While the Law Society of Scotland represents and exercises authority and control over solicitors, it is not "the industry's representative body", as Mr Rogerson suggests. Your leader column proceeds upon the same misconception when it refers to "the law society, the legal profession's regulatory body".
The legal profession in Scotland consists of solicitors and, quite separately, members of the Faculty of Advocates, who are subject to the faculty's own strict rules of professional conduct and its own rigorous disciplinary and complaints procedures. Advocates are not members of the Law Society of Scotland.See the full content of this document
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An Astonishingly Low Rate of Disaffection
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