The two main bodies of the legal profession have moved ever closer over recent years with solicitors being appointed QCs, court dress rules governing the two professions and most recently with the announcement from the Bar Council permitting barristers to undertake litigation work.
Solicitors have been employing in-house barristers for many years and many have taken the conversion to permit partnership in law firms.
This does raise the question how far away are we from the two representative bodies (The Law Society and The Bar Council) merging under one overarching representative body 'The Law Council of England and Wales'.
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