It has been suggested that some solicitors are reticent about acting as advocates because the fact that the great majority of judges are barristers would lead to a knee-jerk, adverse reaction to this new role on the basis that it is regarded as barristers' work. If, in the past, some members of the Bench may have preferred to see barristers rather than solicitors before them, this attitude has largely evaporated. In the Circuit Court, where many solicitors now function on the Bench, nobody has ever been able to detect any change in attitude between solicitors or barristers appearing before such former solicitor judges.