'Sur,—In your issue of December 26th, under the heading Mr.
Bevan and the Doctors, you suggest that an aggrieved practitioner would find the machinery provided in the National Health Service Act less costly than an appeal to the law courts, more human and, at least, equally just. The cost of such an appeal is, of course, an important item ; but I doubt if the method of appealing provided for in the Act would be any less human than the ordinary procedure of the Courts, and, as far as justice is concerned, what the doctors, quite rightly, are concerned about is that the tribunal to which they take their grievances should be impartial. Surely it is common knowledge that Mr. Justice Denning has, on two or three occasions, taken a different view from that of the Ministry of Pensions to the great benefit of the appellant in each case and the furtherance of real justice. I do not believe that, without judicial train- ing, proper justice can be done, and for you to suggest in your valued journal that it is better for the courts to be kept out of these matters is, I think, a very great pity.—Yours truly, CHRISTOPHER W. BOWER.
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