Neil Rose

@kerry_underwood Just realised the point I think you're making. When I said c.85% of firms have 4 partners or fewer, I wasn't just talking about partnerships but all firms - even those that are incorporated often still call their directors 'partners'

@LF_Neil Only 11% of SRA regulated bodies are partnerships - whatever their size, with a further 16% sole practitioners - source- SRA itself -July 2025.

SOLICITORS REGULATION AUTORITY: POLITICAL PRESSURE GROWS FOR IMMEDIATE ABOLITION kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/sol…

@kerry_underwood Not sure I understand the relevance of this statistic. Lots of law firms have incorporated - including yours

@kerry_underwood Show me evidence, not rhetoric. Yes, some ABSs have messed up but so have plenty of 'traditional' law firms (eg Axiom Ince). There is no evidence that non-lawyer ownership makes a difference. How much client money have non-lawyer owners of law firms stolen compared to lawyers?

@LF_Neil The list is too long. Happy to debate it with you but allowing las firms to be wholly owned by non-lawyers is the problem. No discipline, no professional commitmen t. Screw up - just close and move onto something else. So obvious it barely needs stating.

@kerry_underwood I was also pushing back at your absurd suggestion that it's the one of the worst pieces of legislation on the statute book. Personally think it was the poor outcome of a compromise with the profession and could be much improved on (280 characters not enough) but it's not awful

@LF_Neil Are you seriously defending the Legal Services Act, Alternative Business systems and the like? I accept not number one priority for non-lawyers - try finding many lawyers to defend it.

@kerry_underwood I just don't buy this conspiracy type theory - remember that c.85% of law firms have four partners or fewer, so it's no surprise they appear a lot in SRA activity. I'm sure big firms are hard to regulate - no doubt they go hard at the SRA - but some have been done over the years

@LF_Neil I have no problem with a more powerful regulator if it is fair. We all know the SRA is picking off small and medium size firms, so=called easy pickings as they are the mavericks and it suits them and the government to have us out of the way.

Fascinating read

@DXW_KC @JoshuaRozenberg @Policy_Exchange Battle of the Bundles? The Phantom v The Shadow?

Thanks to @JoshuaRozenberg for a characteristically incisive piece on my #RuleofLaw speech today at @Policy_Exchange. Though I doubt whether a lawyerly debate between the Attorney General and his shadow would be much of a crowd-puller: the mumble in the jungle? open.substack.com/pub/rozenberg/…

The Pope is right, of course, being infallible. You don’t see him tweeting about The Hundred or the IPL. He’s a Test cricket purist, which is why he wears white. But his comments about the Ashes making us humble and smoothing narcissism didn’t apply to Kevin Pietersen

@DBanksy There must be a 'China in your hand' gag here

Ok, who had the lead singer of T’pau (Google it kids, they’re Shropshire famous) as a Starmer-China truther?

You can tell the journalist knows the difference between a man and a woman - despite the confused pronouns - because the man is the hero of the story and woman and girls he murdered and raped mere collateral

Oxford v Luton was a: Top tier fixture in 1988 A 2nd tier fixture in 1994 A 3rd tier fixture in 1999 A 4th tier fixture in 2001 A Non-League fixture in 2009 A 4th tier fixture in 2015 A 3rd tier fixture in 2018 And now a 2nd tier fixture in 2025. #oufc #ltfc

2025 looking up already

@LutonNews_LTFC Sadly, the spark has gone from this side - and the fight. In the last couple of seasons in this league we were strong and aggressive and never out-scrapped. Not the case anymore

HT. Blackburn 2 Luton 0. Not much in that until the half hour mark but as so often happens, the Hatters concede and then get hit by another quickfire goal. Sad to say but defeat number seven in a row on the road looks a nailed on certainty now.

@theDAsolicitor @DrProudman How best to get in touch with a journalist query? Ta

I am so pleased for my wonderful client and friend, who has been exonerated of charges that should never have been brought against her 💜 @DrProudman #WeStandWithDrProudman

In her speech today, Heidi Alexander said that by the time she left her post, “I’d like to do so having helped to make it cheaper, easier and more straightforward for [people] to access justice". As she's now been reshuffled to transport secretary, I fear she may have failed

@DeggyUK Not often I wish I hadn't made the trek but I did last night - the spark has just gone out of this team. They all look like they're running through treacle - really felt the failure to replace Ogbene's pace last night (and of course Barkley's creativity)

@LF_Neil Well we lined up like we did 😂 the rest is… 🫣

I’m 1 hour into a 12 hour day shift after 3 hours sleep. Getting home at 2am from Luton getting played off the park. Definitely going to be a grumpy one today. #LutonTown

@LutonNews_LTFC Didn't see that much fight, to be frank

RE: "The fight is there, but there was some poor decision making and some big mistakes that we're getting punished for and that has been the case for a long time. They’re (the players) flat, one or two are angry, but what we need to see is performances, especially away.”