The information commissioner's office is once again launching a crackdown on solicitors failing to register as data controllers (see [2005] Gazette, 18 August, 4).


Are not we making rather a meal of all this? I should imagine that the overwhelming majority of solicitors' firms put data on computer and require registration. All solicitors' firms are regulated by the Law Society and it is a simple matter for the commissioner to see where we all are.


Is it not possible for the Law Society to say to the commissioner that 'we hold a list of all solicitors' firms and you can regard the senior partners in all firms as data controllers'?



Douglas Raine, Ottaways, St Albans, Hertfordshire