How does that affect the discretion of the Cabinet Secretary for Justice?
A. If advocates (or barristers) or solicitors go into practice with people who are none of these, that practice cannot give legally privileged advice and help to its clients, unless the practice members who are not advocates (or barristers) or solicitors are members of another profession that has compatible rules and the same ability to impose sanctions on them for breaches of discipline. If new Multi-Disciplinary Practice Rules failed to preserve the ability to give legally privileged advice, then a Community obligation of the United Kingdom would have been broken, as the word “solicitor” would cease to signify a member of an independent legal profession.
