24 SEPTEMBER 1994, page 20

`what Barristers Do Is Use The System'

Alasdair Palmer speaks to Sir Paul Condon, and a number of other angry policemen, about judges who set villains free IT SEEMED an open and shut case. The police caught two men......

Mind Your Language

I HAVE BEEN reading again with great pleasure Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errours. His nicely modulated 17th-cen- tury prose abounds in latinate words,......