13 MAY 1989, page 24

Rumanian Thorns

Sir: For Professor Roy MacGregor-Hast ie (Letters, 29 April) to assert that living standards in Bucharest in 1968 were higher than they were in London suggests that the aspects......

Officious Prodnose

Sir: Mr Lodge (Letters, 25 March) ques- tions my standing to intervene over the clauses concerning water quality and en- forcement in the Water Bill. In strict legal terms the......

Apostrophe

Sir: Mr Auberon Waugh (Another voice, 29 April) wonders if the Queen wishes to celebrate, in Russia, the 70th anniversary of 'her cousin's murder'. Hasn't he got that apostrophe......

Sir: I Am Surprised That More People Have Not Written

to you on the proposed reform of the legal profession. I am closely associ- ated with a man who was charged with the murder of his wife less than 20 years ago. The first......

Letters Low-down Lawyers

Sir: Whilst Auberon Waugh may or may not be justified in referring to Lord Hail- sham's time on the Woolsack as 'the Brezhnev years' (Another voice, 22 April), I believe Noel......