4 JUNE 1977, Page 17

Those judges

Sir: Why all the fuss over Michael Foot's coMments on the judges, when Shakespeare, a far bigger spendthrift of his longue, is on record in King Henry VI, Part II as having said, 'The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers'?

John O'Riordan

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