In a recent Obiter column you remark that things were vastly different for solicitors back in the year 1215 when 'legal aid rates only went up in pennies' (see [2003] Gazette, 13 November, 14). These days, the words 'only' and 'in pennies' no longer apply.


Steven Baggott, Mason Baggott & Garton, Brigg, Lincolnshire