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I think it teaches us all if you've got enough money and privilege the consequences of not being compliant with prevailing legislation are invariably trivial.
"At most, he might have been obliged to undergo an occasional eye test."
At the Prince's age any competent ocular expert would recommend six monthly tests for Glaucoma, etc.
Driving Test: fat lot of use the current test is! Judging by the reckless manner in which 20 year olds drive today!
CPD: much of this is simple attendance and box ticking; what real use it is?
For those practitioners who really wish to expand their knowledge base, then they select perhaps three critical topics and bone up on these in their own time.
A majority of CPD is simply for the benefit of Professional Bodies, in order they can crow: "Aren't we doing well! We are the best!" Rather the same as Thatcher's NHS when a seriously ill patient in A&E was pestered by some silly girlie dipstick with a clipboard asking dumb questions for a dumber survey, which was subsequently - after massaging - used to "Prove" how well the NHS was doing thanks to Thatcher's best attempts to destroy it!
SMPs need a much simpler and more focused skill-set, in order to address the middle rump of the SME market and its challenges and pitfalls.
Worth remembering - always - the majority of those in public practice are sole or two partner practitioners; irrespective of qualifications.
Mark Spofforth's Small Practioners Committee (which represented the majority of ICAEW practising members) published a small book, "2005 The Road Ahead". Not that the ICAEW took much notice! My wife worked for them at HQ in Moorgate in the small practitioner's group, at the end of her City career. Despite forming a MAJORITY of members and thus contributing a majority of ICAEW fee income, they were treated as the poor relations...