Penny Booth: It's that time of year again...

Mid-August and the papers are full of doom and failure - I wish it was because it is traditionally regarded as the slack time for news in the UK.

Quite rightly it is being said that the cuts in public services will hit us all in various ways and that by ‘hit' we mean badly and detrimentally - and ‘it shouldn't happen' kind of detrimentally too. This includes legal services Amandeep Gill discussed in her last opinion piece.                                       

Of course the public perception of lawyers (practitioners especially) is not always complimentary so any apparent loss of money by lawyers and ‘lawyering' will not necessarily be seen as ‘bad'. Just wait until you have a problem in your family that needs the help of a practitioner. At the rate we are going who will want to practice family law anyway? It's only the very rich who seem to attract media attention yet much family practice is for people who can barely...

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