[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia„—I was much interested
in reading the article, "Cheaper Justice," by Mr. Claud Mullins, in your issue of May 7th. The delay and high legal costs defeat justice, and there seems to be no proper scheme of charges that a solicitor can rightly charge for his services, if I am to judge by a bill of costs recently rendered to me by a firm of solicitors amounting to £38 17s. 10d., which on being taxed was reduced by 121 8s. 7d., the eventual total I had to pay being £17 9s. 3d., which did not include a 33i per cent. which was to be added but not allowed by the taxing master. Such a state of things is surely most unsatisfactory to all concerned, and calls loudly for reform.
That our laws have never been codified, thus allowing case law to reign supreme, is another matter calling for a
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