Gain the advantage: This roundtable will not happen simply because the Ministry has research priorities.
It is a battle for visibility and agenda where the Legal Services Board seeks to take the initiative.
The initiative of the Legal Services Board is a power grab to shape policy, using existing priorities as a convenient pretext to advance its own program.
Without the strategic will to convene this roundtable, the Ministry of Justice's research priorities would remain a simple statement of intent, with no concrete effect.
For example, without an active lobbying and stakeholder mobilization by the Legal Services Board, institutional inertia would prevail.