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Limited hackney carriage numbers

Over 25% of local authorities limit the number of hackney carriages that they will licence, based on the "no significant unmet demand" test (s15 Transport Act 1985 applied to s37 Town Police Clauses Act 1847). This leads to a market in licences (with licences commanding premiums of over £50,000 in some cases), and prevents entry to the market for those without significant capital. The process of limitation also involves enormous amounts of local authority time (both members and officers) and increases costs to the hackney carriage trade, without any demonstrable benefit to the travelling public..

So the legal profession is one of an open door then, anyone can become a solicitor if they want to, maybe we should start asking the monopoly commission to look into how they justify prices like there's then, after all, if we're going to get examined and tampered with, why not the legal eagles, £50 for a letter etc, £10k to say a man can have 20% and his ex wife 80%, yes lets make our mission one to bring legal costs down to a sensible level.

The legal profession was examined and opened up years ago that's why you have all those claim companies suddenly come out of the woodwork Incidentally anybody can become a solicitor, if you're prepared to go to college/uni and then 5 years of articles or you could become the 'private hire' of the legal trade and work your way up to legal executive

Well when you've spent several years at univeristy earning not a lot at all and then 5 years doing articles earning not a lot I guess they think they've earned all that lovely money. They do save people a lot of money sometimes and even allow people to keep their freedom and god only knows how much that is worth. If you think it's so simple to do go take yourself off to uni but be warned it's not like the piece of p*ss they call NVQ

If that is true, how come they choose to have perms?

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from the amount of people against him...... that is now documented.... only a fool that wished to commit political suicide would take him seriously

Why dont we cherrypick the good bits of law from all acts and come up with two distinct codes?

Why not cherrypick best practice from thoughout the UK and see what comes up rather than pandering to the vested interests who simply want a modified version of the status quo because its suits their vested interests?