It's a protected job with no real oversight. Once you qualify you can be terrible at it and still continue working. In the UK the only thing that will get you

It's a protected job with no real oversight. Once you qualify you can be terrible at it and still continue working. In the UK the only thing that will get you struck off is embezzlement of client funds. In other words, a crime. You may get struck off for deliberately lying to a client, but that depends somewhat on the niche and on plausible deniability. The likelihood goes up the more prestigious and corporate the clients are. Otherwise, for basic everyday work like property conveyancing, you can minimum-effort paper push and no one will call you on it. Doctors, accountants and some parts of software dev can get by with a similar phone-it-in culture. You can be mediocre/bad and in some situations no one will notice and/or care.