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as someone who has practiced immigration law for the past 2 decades as a solicitor and who almost always conducts advocacy myself I sadly have say that the BSB report is not far off the mark, if a little misguided in what the ought to be concentrating on. There are some dire practitioners out there pretending to give legal advice and frankly I wouldn't want them advising me on breakfast let alone my immigration status. The most atrocious offenders are these so called OISC immigration consultants - some of them have horses tied up outside their offices, can't spell the words 'professional standards' much less understand what they mean and quite a few of them struggle to put a whole sentence together in English. they roll up to the Tribunal often with vulnerable clients who speak no English and have been misled into believing that they have an arguable case let alone a presentable one and who have handed over very hard earned cash (usually earned delivering pizzas or washing floors at five quid an hour). I don't agree with the BSB so much on their assault on solicitors as there are now less and less of the 1990's style Green Form paper factories around, but have personally witnessed OISC advisers showing up at court in jeans and a T shirt to present a case (and promptly being sent home again by the IJ).