ADVOCATING RIGHTS
As a current LPC student and hopeful future solicitor-advocate, I read with interest your recent article 'New Age of Advocacy' (see [2001] Gazette, 1 November, 30).
However, I was a little alarmed, not least because courtrooms are often poorly heated places, by Patrick Walker's assertion that although 'many solicitors are pushing for the right to wear robes, many barristers would be happy to see them dropped altogether.'Marcus Hannah, Oxford Institute of Legal Practice
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