Well, I thought it would be only a short time until a solicitor would jump to the defence of the so-called Legal Profession. I would probably do the same if I were a solicitor. However, Ireland's compo culture exists as a result of unscrupulous solicitors. If solicitors told potential clients with nonsense claims to get lost and cop on to themselves, there would be no compo culture.
Presumably, MOB will not agree, and that's fair enough.
I don't think I did jump to the defence of the so-called Legal Profession.
In fact, I thought that I was careful to express no opinion whatever on the various criticisms of the Legal Profession. It is not a debate I propose to enter.
I did raise what I thought was a point worth making:--it is commonplace to complain that 'somebody should do something' but it is disappointingly rare for a complainant to actually get up and be that somebody. I view it as one of our national failings.