The Legal Services Commission (LSC) has had its knockers over the years, not least in these pages, but this week we feel obliged to pay tribute to its sense of fairness. A respondent to our 2005 legal aid survey mistakenly sent their completed form to the LSC, although fortunately (for them) there was no way on the survey or envelope to identify which firm it was. This particular firm expressed itself dissatisfied with the current legal aid system, pessimistic as to the future - both of the system and the firm's involvement in it. The writer concluded: 'The system at present is punitive. Solicitors are in the main trying to do their best for clients and have to fight the LSC as well as the opponents.' It must have been tempting at LSC HQ to file the survey quietly in a recycling bin and ensure that at least one bashing vanished, but to their credit, they merely popped it back in the envelope and posted it on to us.