With the impact of the latest cuts to legal aid yet to bite, the number of practising solicitors in the UK in 2014 was revised down by 3,189 between January and February 2014, according to the latest figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
The SRA’s figures on regulated solicitor population show a total of 127,423 practising solicitors in February 2014, compared to 130,612 in January, the month before.