Chancery Lane under attack over DTI consultation snub
Legal Week reports
November 01, 2006 at 07:03 PM
2 minute read
The Law Society's ability to represent City lawyers has again been called into question after it emerged that Chancery Lane failed to respond to a major Government consultation with the excuse that it "cannot respond to everything".
The Law Society, which has an annual budget of more than £100m, did not make the deadline for replies to the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) consultation paper early last month on the future of US-style class actions in the UK.
The Law Society initially put the lack of a response down to the fact that it could not respond to every government paper, but subsequently claimed that it had not received notification of the consultation. It has since written a letter informing the DTI of its views on the main issues raised.
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