The House of Lords constitution committee has called for the ethical training of lawyers to be “reviewed and strengthened” and for lawyers to receive it “throughout their career”.

Peers also said delays and backlogs in the civil justice system should be “urgently addressed by the government” and a continuing failure to address them would be “a significant threat to the rule of law in this country”.

In a report on the rule of law, they said that distrust of the legal profession had been “accelerated by negative rhetoric in the media and by politicians” and exacerbated by the lack of legal advice, but it had also been “undermined by high-profile examples of unethical practice”, such as the Post Office scandal.

Advice, guidance and training on how to fulfil ethical obligations was availabl

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