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Originally Posted by cookie_365
Oh and Osem, the reason not every complaint results in a solicitor being struck off is because the overwhelming majority of complaints are for trivial reasons, whinges that they didn't get the outcome they wanted, rejected because they haven't bothered going through the solicitors own complaints procedure without a good reason, or minor stuff like delays and poor communication that doesn't warrant striking off. Oh, and the fact that there aren't even 17000 solicitors around to be reported 
Since the only professional thing about that site is the logo they stole off the LCS I would't put much faith in anything that's there if I were you  |
Don't worry about me - I tend not to put too much faith in anything much these days
I posted that link because, despite quite a lot of searching, they were the only recent figures I could find. I wonder why that is......
Anyway, I do of course realise that only a proportion of complaints would be deemed serious enough to consider the ultimate sanction but it'd be interesting to see more comprehensive figures. I did however find this:
http://www.lawcare.org.uk/PDF%20File...n%E2%80%A6.pdf
Which makes interesting reading even if it's almost entirely devoid of statistics.