27 MAY 1960, Page 15

COSTLY THY HABIT

SIR,--While one has unbounded sympathy for the unfortunate chauffeur, so expensively caught in the toils of the law, it is surely pertinent to inquire whether his solicitor could not have sought the ear of the Bench, or perhaps the Clerk, with a view to having this obvious miscarriage of justice corrected before it had been recorded. It would then surely not have been necessary to set in train the admittedly costly process of certiorari. Perhaps the Divisional Court considered this point in refusing the de- fendant's application for costs.—Yours faithfully,

R. G. SIMMINS