.20 Garvock Hill, Dunfermline
P.S. In a recent issue, Benny Green wrote about "No Latin and less Greek '(interesting but possibly with tongue in cheek). Has he any comments about Hugh Trevor-Roper? Clearing up the lawyers Sic Your issue of July 28 provided two delectable features — the leaden " Cleaning up politics," and Louis Clairborne's "Lawyers betray the "." If only one of your magi would llow provide a synthesis as seen from the English stance! From the viewpoint of the penurious layman, however, the first object for a thorough keel-hauling is that Most ambivalent of bodies, the Law Society. That this self-regarding, tind self-rewarding Trades' Union Should, alone, hold in its gift Legal Aid 'de the poor is as cynical as it is
onstrably corrupt.
Wholly the Society is composed 7"afiy of law-pushers; and no law
Risher — whose business it is to Plead, arrange, fix, or betray for pay
7" Can ever be wholly honest, or ever II the least disinterested. My lamented ;ether-in-law (no joke), holder of a sw degree, was profuse in his warnlap that the lawyer's first loyalty is queeYs to his firm — that is, to his Pocket. Secondly, the mafioso structure uf this Law Society is unlike that Of the normal Trades' Union. Whereas Mr JOe Crudd, boss of the SUDS and Allied Enema Makers Union, has small li)chlver to influence his members in the eY-to-day conduct of their business 55, whole career of the law-pusher Is at the mercy of any old tosspot of a Chancellor washed up, and stranded, UPOn the Wool-thing by vagrant political tides. thus you have this honourable s 2cjety, of all entities one of the most 7TiSitive to the world's two grossest Influences — pounds and power — un)11ecked by the civil service, free of the „41,1ast of conscience or responsibility, sTe of which the decisions (I understand) Will not be subject to review or rs' :LieXPlanation, posturing as the sole ;Nter as to whether the deprived will, r Will not, receive legal representation. Need the BMA sanctify each apflerldix operation? And where delay, Or the rich, may mean victory, for the Peer k is most often calamity. And it 'an
easily be shown that this Law Soc. i
iety s crassly (and, no doubt, very Orafitably)dilatory in its purveyings.
We have," writes Claiborne,
°Itg since /earned that law control/. • Ing the rulers is what disnguishes democracy from tyranny." Good But lawyers ruling is mere ca. escrooy.
Archibald Robertson-Glasgow Court, Grafton Flyford, Worces`ershire Ring tale
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