CLIENT QUANDARY

I was intrigued to see from its recent recruitment advertisement that the Salaried Defence Service will ...think afresh about...client retention.While I always regard...I was intrigued to see from its recent recruitment advertisement that the Salaried Defence Service will ...think afresh about...client retention.While I always regard it as a compliment when former criminal clients request my services on the next occasion when they find themselves in trouble, I do try wherever appropriate to suggest to criminal clients at the conclusion of a case that it would be in their best interest not to commit further offences.

I regard it as successful client retention when the next time I see that client is when they ask me to do their conveyancing because they have got a job and are buying a house.

As the SDS will provide exclusively criminal representation, surely the whole concept of client retention raises a philosophical and moral qaundary.

Should government employees really be exhorting criminals to come back and see me next time you get caught committing a crime.

Hugh Parsons, Humphrey & Parsons, Machynlleth, Powys