Eduardo Reyes reports
News headlines on 6 May 2020 reflected a series of grim milestones arising from the pandemic. Global confirmed cases hit 3.65m, while youth unemployment was predicted to climb to a million in the UK.
England may have been six weeks into its first lockdown, but letters were about to start flying between the Junior Lawyers Division and the Solicitors Regulation Authority on a very different topic. When JLD chair Charlotte Parkinson attached the committee’s letter and hit ‘send’, it was to inform the regulator that junior lawyers had reached ‘the point where we do not have confidence in its approach to regulatory matters’.