When I collected my real world post this morning, I almost fell over when I read the main headline in Legal Week "Big Bang put on hold as Legal Services Bill delayed till 2010".  I was lost for words.  The implications of the delay will take time to consider, especially as many organisations have been gearing up for the earlier change.

Quoting briefly from the article, Bircham Dyson Bell public law partner Nick Brown told Legal Week: “I am surprised there is a delay. I cannot see it is necessary to take so long as there has been a lot of preparation for this legislation.”

One can only imagine the forces at work behind the scene.

The arrival of this story this morning on the timing of change in the UK legal world contrasts markedly with the constant theme of thousands of blog posts I have read in the last few weeks, which is of the exponential change currently taking place in the world of new media and social tools.

The "Did You Know?" video from 2006 will be very different from the version of 2008 (when the Legal Services Act was likely to come into force) and certainly very different from the version of 2010.  A change of UK government may also have had something to say on the subject by the time 2010 comes around.