Lawyers’ lobby groups ‘alone amid fight for reform’

LAWYERS’ lobby groups are the only ones who don’t believe the legal profession is in need to reform, according to Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny.

Taking a cut off solicitors and barristers, while criticising the slow rate of reform in the country, Mr Kenny said reform needed to be railroaded in the crucial areas of insurance, banking and the professions.

Addressing the Waterford Chamber of Commerce, Mr Kenny said the Competition Authority’s investigation into the professions would not be published until well into next year, despite being first announced back in 2001.