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representations. There had been no discussion of taxation of savings and Madame Scrivener had not attended the meeting. However the effective withdrawal of earlier proposals in this area had been implicitly conceded by the circulation by the Commission of a note now headed Fiscal Cooperation. The question how far member countries might be prepared to increase measures of cooperation in relation to tax evasion remained to be seen. It seemed likely that discussion would be sumed on this subject in October. At lunch the Commission the French Presidency had set out the timetable of work they envisaged over the next months on Economic and Metary Union (FMU) to follow up the conclusions of the Madrid Eupean Council. He had made clear the United Kingdom's intention to develop ideas for alternative models of EMU to those contained in the Delors Report. There was expected to be a stocktaking discussion in this area at an informal meeting to be held in d'Antibes in September.

Informal Meeting of Social

Affairs

Ministers

10 July

THE SECRETARY State for Employ

of Social Affairs officials had been

FOR EMPLOYMENT

said that the Minister of r Cope, had attended an informal meeting ters on 10 July. A Working Group of to give further consideration to a The United Kingdom had agreed to its position was fully reserved.

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The meetings of the Grapht offer opportunities to expose differences among other m

The Cabinet

Took note.

countries.

THE FUTURE

OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION

5. The Cabinet considered a memorandum by the Lord Chancellor, (C(89) 10), to which was attached a draft White Paper on the future of the legal profession.

the public

e

had, on

Paper that

THE LORD CHANCELLOR said that the broad proposals in the Green Papers published in January had been justif response. Taking the main proposals in turn, rights of audience, been some criticism that the proposals would have given the Executive too much power area. He believed that this criticism could be proposed that barristers qualified by the Bar's education and training should have rights of audience all courts and tribunals and that the Law Society should ad empowered on the face of the statute to declare solic qualified to plead in all courts. This explicit power for the

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