[url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1200382006]LINK[/url] said:
...Story in full A MAJOR schism is opening within Scotland's legal profession with lawyers across the country plotting to create a new national association to represent their interests, The Scotsman has learned.
The proposed new body reflects an unprecedented militancy among Scotland's 1,500 registered legal-aid lawyers and a rejection of the traditional representative role played for decades by the Law Society of Scotland...
...But senior Law Society officials last night dismissed suggestions that they had failed to represent lawyers' interests, insisting it was their negotiations which secured meetings with deputy justice minister Hugh Henry and, ultimately, an improved pay offer of 8 per cent for court work and 12 per cent for all other work backdated to December 2005...
