The High Court is closed today. For the first time in history, judges have downed wigs to debate what they suspect may be a threat to justice itself. On trial are the Government's plans to reform the legal profession: are they the end of costly restrictive practices and a closed shop, or the abolition of an independent legal profession?
But whose law is it anyway? The consumers', who pay the bills, or the lawyers' themselves?
Joshua Rozenberg investigates the lawyers and cross-examines their arguments.