Body has no power to force law training reform

THE Competition Authority (CA) has no powers to force the Society of the King’s Inns to accept its radical recommendations for reform of barristers’ training and regulation, it confirmed yesterday.

The King’s Inns has rejected the authority’s recommendations that a legal services commission be set up to oversee legal education and the regulation of the profession.

It has also rejected the CA’s recommendation that the King’s Inns’s and Law Society’s monopoly of legal professional training be broken.