15 JULY 1972, Page 26

Snide journalism

Sir: Notebook (July 8) contains two particularly nasty examples of snide journalism.

You quote from a "note which one local law society has sent to its members and which presumably represents official Law Society policy and thinking."

Either you know or you were too lazy to discover that provincial law societies are entirely autonomous and indeed that their views are often very different from the Law Society.

"Solicitors are not necessarily much good at looking after their clients' interests but they are very good when it comes to their own," If you don't like solicitors have the courage to say so and why, I have the courage to call this sort of sneer cheap, underhand and intellectually dishonest.

Roger H. Vernon 31 Westfield Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham