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concerned, abolish, qualified, outcome, meet, resistance, split, aim response, favour, specialized, inevitable, legislation, set up, drafted The Royal Commission on Legal Services rejected suggestions that the present legal profession, which is (1)_____ into the two branches of barristers and solicitors, should be fused into a joint profession. But there are many good arguments in (2)_____ of fusion. Despite the (3)_____ put up by barristers to fusion of the two professions, recent events suggest that fusion may be (4)_____ and is more likely to be a gradual process, achieved in (5)_____ to consumer demands and external pressures rather than by comprehensive (6)_____. At present, most of the moves are coming from the Law Society, which has (7)_____ new proposals. These, if implemented, would (8)_____ the strict demarcations between solicitors and barristers, and would allow all lawyers to deal directly with clients and to represent them in the courts. The (9)_____ seems to be towards a general practice level for all lawyers, with newly (10)_____ practitioners appearing only in lower courts and a higher “consultant” level entered after further (11)_____ training and examinations. The Office of Fair Trading, a body (12)_____ with consumer rights, has welcomed these proposals. The Law Society and the Bar Council have (13)_____ a joint committee to examine the possibility of improving the training of all lawyers to (14)_____ consumer needs more effectively. Whatever the (15)_____ will be, we are currently witnessing a most exciting period of change in the legal profession.